Re: [Tagging] Site of Community Importance

2012-02-17 Thread Bryce2 Nesbitt
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Jason Cunningham wrote: > A 'site of special scientific interest' is different to a 'site of > community importance', at least in the UK. A 'site of community importance' > appears to be a way for the EU to notify a member countries that a piece of > land should be

Re: [Tagging] building attributes

2012-02-08 Thread Bryce2 Nesbitt
> > Colons in keys are likely to make many casual mappers uneasy about > > editing said tag, let alone two of them in one key. > Casual mappers seem an unlikely target for this particular type of highly technical mapping. That said: The 3D mapping by tags is interesting. But anothe

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - rail_trail

2012-01-30 Thread Bryce2 Nesbitt
Your proposal should draw much more heavily from existing practice, in particular for attributes like the surface. Typical rail trail surfaces are basalt rock leftover from the railroad, dirt (after the basalt rock sinks), stone dust deliberately placed, and pavement. Despite having worked on seve

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-18 Thread Bryce2 Nesbitt
>>> Because the land is used (and zoned) for a different purpose. >> >> A residential street is used for residential purposes: traveling to and from >> a house, parking cars, playing ball... > > It's also used for non-residential purposes. The road is a road: it has meaning, semantics, access rule