Re: [Tagging] how to map soft story/soft storey buildings properly?

2018-12-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 3:44 PM Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > usually the answer to this is we do not want to be merely redistributing > authoritative data that OSM mappers can not improve. Sorry, I am not making myself clear enough. This data can be modified and improved by OSM mappers. It's no

Re: [Tagging] how to map soft story/soft storey buildings properly?

2018-12-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 29. Dec 2018, at 22:00, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > > I want to re-iterate that the intention of this discussion is to find a way > to tag on OSM buildings that are **officially** defined as Soft Story by the > appropriate agencies. usually the answer to this is we do

[Tagging] Proposed features - RFC - Power and pipeline substations functions

2018-12-29 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, I recently found out that current tagging for substations (power or pipelines) with substation=* key actually merge two distinct concepts. It deals with hierarchy levels and specific network functions a substation can host. It's hardly possible to document the substation=* key properly with th

Re: [Tagging] how to map soft story/soft storey buildings properly?

2018-12-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:58 AM Michael Patrick wrote: > Because their may not have been very many of these left after multiple > earthquakes? > Interesting theory :) There are hundreds of thousands of these sort of buildings in California alone: it's a pretty big deal. First, it might be noti

Re: [Tagging] Tagging mangroves over water?

2018-12-29 Thread Warin
On 29/12/18 22:52, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2018, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: Have you seen any areas of mangroves tagged over water? That is, outside of the coastline or over natural=water or waterway=riverbank areas? [...] I think this discussion has already been made in t

Re: [Tagging] how to map soft story/soft storey buildings properly?

2018-12-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 1:17 AM Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > indeed, that's what I was suspecting. Would it be possible to give mappers > summary advice on a short wikipage how to identify potential soft storey > buildings? Or is this something that requires expert training? > This requires expe

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Railway tracks on highway, Updated proposal

2018-12-29 Thread Nikulainen, Jukka K
Dear all! I have now updated the "Railway tracks on highway" proposal page based on discussion and critical comments expressed here. The updated proposal states that the tag-value should always follow that of the railway-tag it shadows. For reasons expressed earlier here, I decided to omit the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal – RFC – place=peninsula

2018-12-29 Thread Markus
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 22:14, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 19:05, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >> >> is there a difference to a “cape”? What about a promontory? Shall we >> distinguish these, and if yes how and according to which criteria? > > Same thing then applies to

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal – RFC – crossing:island=*

2018-12-29 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
I really like this solution, it removes one of  conflicts in crossing tagging. 21 Dec 2018, 18:03 by selfishseaho...@gmail.com: > Hello everyone, > > I'm proposing the new key crossing:island=* to specify whether a > pedestrian crossing has a refuge island (also known as pedestrian > island). Thi

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Top up

2018-12-29 Thread Paul Allen
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 at 12:58, Daniele Santini wrote: > I updated the proposal page with the new tags: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Top_up > Check it out. > The final image on your proposal, of a PayPoint sign, reminded me of yet another complication (at least in the UK

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Top up

2018-12-29 Thread Daniele Santini
I updated the proposal page with the new tags: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Top_up Check it out. Kind regards So, basing on these problems, we could change the proposal to: > - prepaid_top_up= -> to specify the type of services whose top-ups > are sold (like mobile_phone

Re: [Tagging] Tagging mangroves over water?

2018-12-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Saturday 29 December 2018, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > Have you seen any areas of mangroves tagged over water? That is, > outside of the coastline or over natural=water or waterway=riverbank > areas? > [...] I think this discussion has already been made in the past. The majority of mangroves th