[Tagging] [Voting] Feature Proposal – Road marking revision

Hey list, voting has started for road marking revision proposal: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Road_marking_revision Best, Alex ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

[Tagging] [RFC] Feature Proposal – Road marking revision

Hey list, for some time now, there has been in-use documentation in the wiki for a road marking schema for mapping road markings (stop lines, lane dividers, turn lanes, restricted areas etc.) as separate features. Initially only used by a single mapper, the use of the schema is continuously i

[Tagging] [RFC] Feature Proposal - Make cycleway:both the default to indicate both sides

a long way to making tagging easier to manage by editors and data consumers. It's suggested to discuss the proposal in the OSM community forum thread: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-make-cycleway-both-the-default-to-indicate-both-sides/1165

[Tagging] [RFC] Feature Proposal - Deprecate cycleway=shared

n the OSM community forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-deprecate-cycleway-shared/116579 (This message is a cross-post at the request of the proposal author.) Alex ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@ope

[Tagging] [Voting] Feature Proposal - Deprecate cycleway=opposite family

Hey all, voting has started for the proposal on deprecating the cycleway=opposite tagging family. See the proposal page for more details, rationale and to place your vote: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Deprecate_cycleway%3Dopposite_family Best, Alex

[Tagging] [RFC] Feature Proposal - Deprecate cycleway=opposite family

same meaning in a better way. See the proposal page for more details and rationale: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Deprecate_cycleway%3Dopposite_family Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page. Best, Alex (Supaplex030

[Tagging] [Voting] Feature Proposal - Continuous crossings

/voting-feature-proposal-continuous-crossings/106596.) Best, Alex ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Approved - Cyclist footrests and handrails / Cyclist Waiting Aid

/Tag:highway%3Dcyclist_waiting_aid Best, Alex Am 07.11.23 um 16:36 schrieb Alex: Voting has started for Cyclist Waiting Aid Proposal: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Highway%3Dcyclist_waiting_aid Best, Alex ___ Tagging mailing list

[Tagging] [Voting] Feature Proposal - Cyclist footrests and handrails / Cyclist Waiting Aid

Voting has started for Cyclist Waiting Aid Proposal: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Highway%3Dcyclist_waiting_aid Best, Alex ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

[Tagging] [RFC] Feature Proposal - Cyclist footrests and handrails

Hello tagging mailing list, in more and more cities, street furniture or devices have been popping up in the last years that are intended to make it more comfortable for cyclists to wait esp. at traffic lights. After several discussions on various channels, there is now a proposal on how to ta

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Approved - Extended playground equipment

rated into the list in the wiki (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:playground). A few things will follow, especially single pages or wikidata objects for devices to support presets in editors. Best, Alex for the proposal authors group Am 30.06.23 um 16:40 schrieb Alex: Hey all, votin

[Tagging] [Voting] Feature Proposal - Extended playground equipment

Hey all, voting has started for the proposal on extended playground equipment that adds more device values for playground tagging: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Extended_playground_equipment Best, Alex for the proposal authors group

Re: [Tagging] [RFC] Feature Proposal - Extended playground equipment

, we are proposing more values to the list of documented playground equipment to better map typical devices that had no documented value before. >https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Extended_playground_equipment Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.

[Tagging] [RFC] Feature Proposal - Extended playground equipment

/Proposal:Extended_playground_equipment Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page. Best, Alex for the group of proposal authors ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Approved - Street parking revision

good luck with mapping ;) Alex ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - "is_sidepath" as a sidepath concept

_Mainly_, I have concerns about the concept of a cycle path or foot path being attendant to or a sidepath of another road. In Norway, we no longer have cycle paths and foot paths. We have cycleways, footways and carriageways. It may seem like a small difference in terminology, but it makes a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - "is_sidepath" as a sidepath concept

a road. Furthermore, an extended set of sub-tags is proposed to allow to explicitly tag important road attributes on the sidepath itself. >https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:is_sidepath You can discuss this pr

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - "is_sidepath" as a sidepath concept

oposed_features/Key:is_sidepath You can discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page or here. Best, Alex ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Street parking revision

discussion of the proposal on various channels over the past weeks! | |Best, Alex | ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Street parking revision

, it would be good to get critical views from as many perspectives as possible. Thanks for that! Kind regards Alex Am 07.11.22 um 12:37 schrieb Alex: Hey all, over the past few weeks, a group of mappers has been working on a proposal to improve the mapping of parking lanes and parking spaces

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Street parking revision

be a tag on that way as well? It could be useful to routers concerned with accessibility to know that it is potentially narrow, in the door zone, may have charging cables as trip hazards, etc. On 07/11/2022 11:37, Alex wrote: Hey all, over the past few weeks, a group of mappers has bee

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Street parking revision

rther gaps. Best regards Alex ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

[Tagging] Proposal - RFC - parking:position

cuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.| |Best, Alex | ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - crossing=priority

You could use "crossing:belisha_beacon" (like crossing:island etc.), but I don't think it has to be part of the proposal. In my area we started to use "crossing:kerb_extension" and "crossing:buffer_markings" this year, see here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Berlin/Verkehrswende/Fu%C3%9Fwege#

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - crossing=priority

e reflected in a new proposal (see chronologies for different values like https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/crossing=unmarked#chronology). greetings Alex Am 13.12.20 um 20:25 schrieb ipswichmapper--- via Tagging: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/crossi

Re: [Tagging] lanes - is "parking allowed" a parking lane?

tinguish between marked and unmarked parallel parking lanes and work with width:* values (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:width#Width_of_streets) instead of lane information? Cheers, Alex / Supaplex030 Am 19.11.20 um 15:17 schrieb Tobias Zwick: > Hello all > > First of all, in the past

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - parking=street_side​

s comments and your future votes. Alex (and Jeroen Hoek, the other author of this proposal) ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Reception Desk

/Key:information landuse=reception_point -- Alex On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > >- Of course it is not tourism, but amenity: it is not a goal by >itself, but an amenity of something larger. There probably more reception >desks at industrial c

Re: [Tagging] courtyards

as a POI, perhaps because I didn't know how. I hope this conversation can help lots of people. Thanks for bringing it up! -- Alex On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Lukas Sommer wrote: > I didn't know that courtyards have their own name ;-) > > In general, it seems a good idea t

Re: [Tagging] Personal Keys for WikiProject, Survey Data for Import

rse not, so, I am new to this, and I spend a lot of time on OSM, but I really don't know where to start with scripting tracking for thousands of nodes that might get a new unique ID every other week. Where do I start? > 2014-09-18 1:43 GMT+02:00 Alex Rollin : > >> Hello, >>

[Tagging] Personal Keys for WikiProject, Survey Data for Import

mprove our plan? Relevant links: WikiProject Indonesia: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Indonesia Here is my user page on the wiki. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Alexrollin -- Alex ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap

Re: [Tagging] feature Proposal - RFC 2 - tourism = apartment

bathtub furnished -- Alex On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Dan S wrote: > 2014-02-16 8:29 GMT+00:00 Philip Barnes : > > On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 07:06 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > >> >I would prefer the plural tourism=apartments. > >> > >> > &g

Re: [Tagging] How to overcome lack of consensus

all over doing automated this and that. Is there a way we could start down a path like that? I know some people are watching coastlines and other things. What should I be doing to get on that wagon? A -- Alex On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 201

Re: [Tagging] How to map an household goods store?

"home" is synonymous with housewares. -- Alex On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Simone Saviolo wrote: > 2013/9/16 Philip Barnes > >> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 05:47 +0200, Stefano Fraccaro wrote: >> > I have some shops that sell only household goods like dishes, pots, >&g

Re: [Tagging] amenity=police

office=government ? i was just looking at something similar with immigration offices, oft frequented by travelers. embassies, yes. in-country immigration offices, no. -- Alex On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > To move this forward I've put this in proposal dr

Re: [Tagging] sports_centre

I have been using sport_centre for the very common facilities here in Indonesia that feature a small pitch, a pool, a building for meetings, and an indoor gym. Often there is a restaurant, a tidy front entrance with grass and trees, as well as a parking lot. I find the rendering to be a bit stran

[Tagging] Wikification of Discussions, New Types of Wiki Pages, Learning to Look at Cities from OSM (Learning from the Roundabout discussion)

l engineer, and sometimes I really don't even know what I am looking at, and I really am learning how to describe my own city FROM the wiki! Wild, hey? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion Open and curious, Alex in Bogor, Indonesia http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Alex%20Rollin _

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: Ojeq Stand

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2012-04-30 01:07, Alex Rollin wrote: >> >> OK, So i make bad (formatting and approach) proposal for tag ojeq >> stand.  It is a motorcycle taxi stand. > > > Why not first search for existing usage? Taxi stands a

[Tagging] Fwd: Ojeq Stand

OK, So i make bad (formatting and approach) proposal for tag ojeq stand. It is a motorcycle taxi stand. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indonesia/adaptation/ojeq_stand Help requested with proposal, please, for formatting, placement, generalization. Alex

Re: [Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

ce On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Pieren wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > >> I'm liking the `area=yes` as seen in Mannheim [1] better than >> `place=neighbourhood`. Thoughts? > > Oh no, please. area=yes has been created to distinguish

Re: [Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

Thanks - any links? A quick look at Salt Lake City gives me street names. On Apr 23, 2012, at 8:18 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2012 3:57 PM, "Alex Barth" wrote: > > > Brasilia and its satellites do not use street names, but an elaborate block > &

Re: [Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

place=neighbourhood`. Thoughts? [1] https://skitch.com/alexbarth/8i8em/java-openstreetmap-editor On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:51 AM, Janko Mihelić wrote: > > > 2012/4/24 Alex Barth > > - draw blocks as polygons > - tag with `landuse=residential` or `landuse=commercial` > - name with block n

Re: [Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:18 AM, Pieren wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Alex Barth > > We had a similar discussion from a contributor working in Peru and > their "cuadra" system. My proposal was to create a new tag > "addr:block" (+ a name or a number

Re: [Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

Interesting. Mannheim uses for a block named C2: area=yes name=C2 On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:57 AM, Michael Krämer wrote: > Am 24. April 2012 00:56 schrieb Alex Barth : > - Any previous discussions or existing practices I should be reading up on? > Brasilia is not the only place where bl

[Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

s://skitch.com/alexbarth/8i8gj/java-openstreetmap-editor [4] http://osm.org/go/NuPiCKvIF- [5] http://osm.org/go/x1DQhC5e /bcc to talk@ Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (202) 250-3633 ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] branch=* tag to specify the particular branch of a chain of stores/amenities

is is a very good idea. Public libraries are often similar, and I know there are some local grocery stores in my area having multiple branches. Often the branch is just a city name, but where there are more than on in a city… —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

idea that they don’t like. —Alex Mauer “hawke” 1. http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Request_For_Veto#Process_for_Idea_Champions ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

to those who don’t care for the voting system, no number is high enough (or relevant). —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Key:designation)

ute’s official classification is basically “officially designated for [xxx] traffic”. There’s nothing like the UK’s “Restricted Byway” classification. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/lis

Re: [Tagging] designated bike lane

“hazard=narrow_bridge” would be the right way to tag such a sign, or if it would be completely correct to tag here since there is no sign. In any case, it seems obvious that a narrow bridge would require extra caution for cyclists even if there are cycle lanes. —Alex Mauer “hawke” 1. http

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

On 10/26/2010 05:32 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: you _are_ to use this tag, go ahead ;-) Thanks, but it’s not that I feel restricted from using this tag. I just don’t feel the need to tag paths as being informal; highway=path is quite enough for my purposes. —Alex Mauer “hawke

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

informal=yes, were I to use this tag. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

probably apply to many highway=track ways as well. —Alex Mauer “hawke”' ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] atms with names?

o the route relation as well as the more simple boundary relations (ones that don’t have any enclaves or exclaves) and multipolygons (again, where they’re used to simply group multiple ways) —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Ta

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

On 10/23/2010 08:45 AM, Ralf Kleineisel wrote: On 10/22/2010 09:50 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: That’s not what the wiki says. It says “If a path is wide enough for four-wheel-vehicles […] it is often better tagged as a highway=track.” That doesn’t mean that that is the only criterion. Then what

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

On 10/23/2010 08:31 AM, Ralf Kleineisel wrote: On 10/22/2010 09:49 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: No. Width is not a sufficient criterion to determine whether it’s a track. There is a rails-to-trails conversions around here that don’t have anything physically preventing cars from driving down it A

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

It’s not the same place as Richmond, VA. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

ed as a highway=track.” That doesn’t mean that that is the only criterion. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

(and in fact they’re driven on by county park vehicles for maintenance and catching people using them without a trail pass.) That does not make it a highway=track. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

posted, maintained, named trail: http://www.trailville.com/wiki/WI_Kettle_Moraine_State_Forest_Ice_Age_Trail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age_Trail —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

ucking for cover] is more appropriate to show this, unless you’re able to come up with a good definition. If you can come up with a good definition I’d certainly support it on a separate tag (path:type=trail?) —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tag

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

otway". Incorrect, unless it happens to be…a footway. We went over this when path was proposed. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

k the same. I don’t want to have to memorize the mapping conventions of every country to know what I’m looking at when I look at a map, or to shift my mode of thinking as I move around the map. OSM is a map of the world, so that’s the “locational context” in which we (OK, I) am looking. —Alex

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

On 10/21/2010 08:15 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Maine still has unincorporated cartesian townships with names like "Township 7 Range 4". This is timber country with few permanent settlements. A few have recieved names, likely by incorporation (idk). From my quick understanding, those would be “uno

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

tes, and other levels of bureaucracy. There’s a nice list of names for things if you want to see the huge mass of possibilities [1]. If you want to give the name of the administrative entity, use border_type [2]. —Alex Mauer “hawke”. 1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 04:07 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8. FYI, it's the same with Minnesota: cities and townships are legally different forms of municipalities (one incorporated, o

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 04:12 PM, Anthony wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Anthony wrote: Okay, here's another wrench to throw in: In Pennsylvania: "School districts can comprise of one single municipality, like the School District of Ph

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 03:23 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: admin_level=7 it is. Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8. Why the Dakotas? —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

ould exist within an admin_level=8. Florida doesn’t use townships anyway, so it’s not really relevant. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 03:24 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Not all US states use the same administrative hierarchy. Yeah, but for example we use the same admin_level regardless of whether it’s called a county, a borough, or a parish; or a township vs. a town, etc. When we’re using different words for t

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 03:14 PM, Anthony wrote: Only in those 11 states, right? I'm surprised admin level isn't already handled defined on a state by state level. Why treat it differently depending on the state? —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Taggi

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is you won’t find a chunk of land that is both “city|village|etc.” and “township” simultaneously; cities

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 02:49 PM, Peter Budny wrote: Anthony writes: I think you're right here, though I probably would indicate the township boundaries on most maps in a similar (though somewhat less prominent) manner to county boundaries - at least at certain zoom levels. It sounds like you may have

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

this discussion). Perhaps we need to shift the discussion to actually figuring out a better replacement for place=*? —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 01:24 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/10/20 Alex Mauer: The definitions are well-established. but they are not reflected in the (international/main part of) the wiki for key=place. Oh? Every language version of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place says

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

because you’re interested in the US. Just because the TIGER city boundary import screwed up on the place=* tags doesn’t mean they’ve magically been redefined. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 01:06 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/10/20 Alex Mauer: Is there some reason it would need to be repeated over and over for every country? I recognize the idea of American exceptionalism, but come on! actually this never worked well, and in Germany and Italy people are

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 12:57 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: (4) some people correctly use the place=* tag to reflect the government of a place rather than the population because they put the population in the population=* tag. Fixed for you. Sorry

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 12:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:53 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Well, additional reasons for the density of place names in some regions, and the sparsity in other regions, are: (1) not all of the US uses the same hierarchy of administrative units; (2) some parts of the

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

On 10/20/2010 11:53 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Well, additional reasons for the density of place names in some regions, and the sparcity in other regions, are: (1) not all of the US uses the same hierarchy of administrative units; (2) some parts of the US are much more densely occupied than othe

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

this was the US convention. It’s an OSM convention. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place Is there some reason it would need to be repeated over and over for every country? I recognize the idea of American exceptionalism, but come on! —Al

Re: [Tagging] Paper streets?

On 10/19/2010 02:14 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: How so? It's not a highway. Neither is a highway which is under construction. Neither is a stop sign. Neither is a What’s your point? Of course, at some point a proposal may die and there

Re: [Tagging] Paper streets?

lt. i see them from time to time. Same here. —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Paper streets?

round is an entirely different question, but if we’re going to map proposed/paper streets at all, highway=proposed sounds entirely appropriate. Of course, at some point a proposal may die and there’s no need to indicate on the map where a road is *no longer* proposed. —Alex Mauer “

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Feature Proposal - Voting - Craft

John Smith wrote: On 8 September 2010 05:03, Peter Körner wrote: Looking at the tag definition, it would be a craft because it's creating custom-made things. How many lock smiths actually make something? The ones here sell and install alarm/security systems, cut keys etc... They don't make the

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Feature Proposal - Voting - Craft

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: craft=fashion should be fashion_designer to correpond to the translation, but still this is not a craft. I would put it in office. *I* am a craft=fashion, and *not* a fashion_designer. Specifically: custom embroidery, heat-applied vinyl, direct-to-garment & screen p

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

Well, chalk it up to "you learn something new every day." It makes a lot of sense, and from what I've seen, is nearly universally used. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > > I don't know of any other feature where the direction of the way means > something *without* anothe

Re: [Tagging] How to tag an unsigned bike lane?

ise you'd have people turning right in front of cyclists who are going straight. (Cyclists turning right should be using the right-turn lane) —Alex Mauer “hawke” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Tagging mailing list Taggin

Re: [Tagging] How to tag an unsigned bike lane?

On 08/23/2010 09:35 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > btw.: this is not what we call "lane" in OSM, it is a > "(cycleway?)=track". I would actually consider to map it separately > (with its own way) and not just attached with tags on the street, > because it is physically divided from the road (basi

Re: [Tagging] Tagging for streets with sharrows?

destinations of routes replace the old > style signs. Otherwise, there is no difference between the old Bike > Route signs and the new pavement and signage markings. [citation needed] —Alex Mauer “hawke” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [Tagging] Tagging for streets with sharrows?

gnated is always a sharrow, but that a sharrow is effectively the same thing as a sign saying “bike route”. They’re both ways of marking something as a designated route for bicycles. —Alex Mauer “hawke” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

not otherwise signed is 25 mph (~40km/h). Certainly not limited to “walking speed”. —Alex Mauer “hawke” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Oil Spill Tagging

I agree, I don't think that an oil spill should be mapped. And the landuse=cemetery is certainly just vandalism. On -10/01/37 20:59, Simone Saviolo wrote: > 2010/7/15 Steve Doerr : >> I see that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico >> (

Re: [Tagging] 'name' variation tags standardisation

ode doesn't > exist." Ah, thanks. I was looking at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name –Alex Mauer “hawke” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] 'name' variation tags standardisation

On 06/25/2010 10:24 AM, Craig Wallace wrote: > But how do you know whether the part after the colon is a language code > or a type of name? > eg "alt" is the ISO 639-2 code for Southern Altai. Does openstreetmap use the ISO 639-2 codes? It looks to me like it uses ISO 639-1.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Advanced stop line

Since no one has yet voted I have changed the key to cycleway=advanced_stop_line , this gets rid of the abbreviation. This new key should be easier to work out what it means. Alex On 17/06/10 21:42, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/6/17 Alex Wardle : >> Could people please look and vot

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Advanced stop line

Could people please look and vote on this proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Advanced_stop_line ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Advanced stop line

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Advanced_stop_line On -10/01/37 20:59, John Smith wrote: > On 20 May 2010 18:45, Alex Wardle wrote: >> Feature Proposal - RFC - Advanced stop line > > URL? > > ___ Tagging

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Advanced stop line

Feature Proposal - RFC - Advanced stop line ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] tagging for discount stores in US

ing > what it is, exactly, that makes "Crazy Clarks" a "discount" store. That had always been my feeling as well. Imagine my surprise when I heard an ad on the radio from Target, advertising themselves as “Target: the upscale discount store” —Alex Ma

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