Re: [Tagging] RFC: wheelchair:toilets=yes/no

2013-06-25 Thread Brian Wolford
I too prefer toilets:wheelchair=* On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:45 AM, fly wrote: > On 17.06.2013 23:10, Holger Dieterich wrote: > > Hi, > > > > here's the request for comments on my first proposal: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/wheelchair:toilet > > > http://wiki.openst

Re: [Tagging] amenity=toilets / pitlatrine=yes

2013-06-25 Thread Brian Wolford
This is great Bryce, thanks. > > male=yes/no for/tagging a men-only entrance=yes./ > > female=yes/no for /tagging a female-only entrance=yes./ > > I miss: > unisex=yes/no > fee=* > male=yes/no, female=yes/no, and unisex=yes/no are all tags with decent usage and documentation and support th

Re: [Tagging] Reviving "pitlatrine" proposal from 2011

2013-06-20 Thread Brian Wolford
we also need to tag for two different reasons, 1) the user experience and 2) analysis by sanitation experts. On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Brian Wolford < > worldwidewolf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't

Re: [Tagging] Reviving "pitlatrine" proposal from 2011

2013-06-20 Thread Brian Wolford
iki/Key:drinking_water>=yes > fee=no > > That said, I can't see rendering engines using more than two icons: > "toilet" and some form of "outhouse". > All our composting and chemical dreams aside, those are the two most > important subdivisions. > >

Re: [Tagging] Reviving "pitlatrine" proposal from 2011

2013-06-20 Thread Brian Wolford
This is great. One note on composing. Compost toilets can be both fixed location pits, and buckets. I'm familiar with systems where buckets (5 to 40 gallons) are filled with waste and then dumped on a local compost or picked up by a third party and brought to a human waste composing center. I woul

Re: [Tagging] Reviving "pitlatrine" proposal from 2011

2013-06-20 Thread Brian Wolford
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:06 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > Well, you also have the old-style outhouse, where you have a small > building, including a seat, located above a pit which receives the waste. > The temporary latrines used at construction sites are much the same, except > that the "pit"

Re: [Tagging] Reviving "pitlatrine" proposal from 2011

2013-06-20 Thread Brian Wolford
> > +1 for flush being water carrying it away, but I thought pit would refer > to a hole in the "ground" (or floor, i.e. a place where you stand to do > your business) as opposed to a seat, but now I understand you see this as > opposed to being attached to the sewers? > Not necessarily sewers, bu

Re: [Tagging] Reviving "pitlatrine" proposal from 2011

2013-06-20 Thread Brian Wolford
> > you can have pits with flush or without so this modification doesn't work. > What are the benefits of the changes you propose? > > I think it is referring to the "front-end" or "user-experience" of the toilet. In which case it wouldn't be both flush or pit, flush being water carries it away, an

Re: [Tagging] "State of repair" tag

2013-06-11 Thread Brian Wolford
> I've just found the HOT tag > 'operational_status >> ' >> This addresses a similar need, but it does not have a wiki page. >> >> For discussion on "operational_status": http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/operational

Re: [Tagging] "State of repair" tag

2013-06-09 Thread Brian Wolford
> In no case do we want the feature to be hidden from rendering: it's still a mappable object. The goal is quite the opposite: to highlight the drinking water sources in need of repair. If you are going to highlight things then it seems like you would be creating a specific rendering already. And

Re: [Tagging] tagging cannons

2013-06-03 Thread Brian Wolford
Follow up. If tagging a small area that has, say, 8 cannons, but not wanting to map them individually. What is the best tag to use to indicate number of cannons there? capacity=* doesn't seem right. Is there something like count=*? Mesi, b 2013/5/31 René Kirchhoff > Yes! :) > > see http://w

[Tagging] how to tag professional schools

2013-06-03 Thread Brian Wolford
Was wondering if anybody knew the proper way to tag professional/trade/vocational schools. Specifically looking for auto repair school right now. But relevant also for hair stylist school, HVAC repair school, ect... Even dance and music schools. Found this proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/

[Tagging] tagging cannons

2013-05-31 Thread Brian Wolford
On behalf of Wedens of COSMHA-STM and talk-ht, We would like to know if it is appropriate to tag historic cannons in old military forts as: historic=cannon http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/historic=cannon Example picture: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citadelle_in_Haiti,_cannons.JPG

Re: [Tagging] Fast Food Restaurants

2013-05-28 Thread Brian Wolford // HOT
Hehe. As a former Panera employee I would say that the food is indeed shipped in bulk in factory fashion. (frozen gallon bag of soup anyone?) ;-) For me Panera would be fast_food or cafe, depending on the mappers inclination. On May 28, 2013 7:22 PM, "Greg Troxel" wrote: > >

Re: [Tagging] Fast Food Restaurants

2013-05-28 Thread Brian Wolford // HOT
I often differentiate fast_food as "counter service" and restaurant as "sit down with a menu and order from a waiter" service. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'd go with the amenity=fast_food bit, too. Restaurants are a little > higher class, Waffle House would be an ed

Re: [Tagging] Juice "restaurants"

2013-05-08 Thread Brian Wolford // HOT
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=Jamba%20Juice Right now there is a minor majority given to amenity=fast_food over cafe for the worlds Jamba Juices. Is the argument out there that juice and smoothies should be considered food? Walk up, order at the counter food or drinks? Perhaps going

Re: [Tagging] Juice "restaurants"

2013-05-07 Thread Brian Wolford
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/cuisine=juice >From humble beginnings... On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Alexander Jones writes: > > > What is the proper way to tag places that make and sell juice and fruit > > smoothies? Examples in the U.S. include Jamba Juice a

Re: [Tagging] New childcare proposal

2013-04-17 Thread Brian Wolford // Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:13 PM, malenki wrote: > Am Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:16:39 +0200 > schrieb def onion : > > > I kindly request your comments about this proposal -> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/childcare2.0 > > My first thought: > What about orphanages and facilitie

[Tagging] HDM presets and tagging revised and for review

2013-04-15 Thread Brian Wolford
Hello all, The HDM (Humanitarian Data Model) presets that HOT uses in the field have been revised to fit more into established OSM tagging practices as part of the effort of starting up the new HOT project in Cap Haitien, Haiti. Please feel free to review them and give input. Please reference thi