[Tagging] Precisions about tourism=chalet

2016-03-30 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
Current tag page is here : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dchalet My questions copied from talk page : As a non native english speaker, I have no clues about what a chalet is supposed to be (in french, a chalet is a type of construction found in the mountain made of wood and does

Re: [Tagging] shop=marine RFC

2016-03-30 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 30/03/2016 22:35, John F. Eldredge wrote: In the 19th century, a chandler was someone who made and sold candles, and so there were many chandlers who didn't deal in nautical supplies. When did the meaning shift? A couple of explanations, and lots of links, here: http://english.stackexc

Re: [Tagging] shop=marine RFC

2016-03-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
In the 19th century, a chandler was someone who made and sold candles, and so there were many chandlers who didn't deal in nautical supplies. When did the meaning shift? On March 14, 2016 6:50:22 AM Richard wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 07:20:46AM +, Malcolm Herring wrote: The common

Re: [Tagging] Tagging "commons" style buildings at large dorms

2016-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-03-30 12:49 GMT+02:00 johnw : > I have no idea on if or what to tag this building as, beyond building=yes building=dormitory_commons? I am not familiar with the common term in English, but I would use a word that describes both: that it's a building serving the dormitories and that it's a

[Tagging] Tagging "commons" style buildings at large dorms

2016-03-30 Thread johnw
My son moved from a very small dorm facility to a very large dormitory for Tokyo University, and of course I was trying to update the facility and ran into a couple questions on tagging. there are 7 buildings: 6 dorm buildings and the central office/hall The dorm buildings (the housing part) i