Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010/1/19 David Earl : > On 19/01/2010 17:42, John F. Eldredge wrote: >> beverages > > interestingly, not a word you would often find used in British English. > Generally "drinks" often means alcoholic beverages, though sometimes any > depending on context, with "soft drinks" and "hot drinks". > >>

Re: [Tagging] Proposed definition for cycleways (was Re: bicycle=no)

2010/1/5 Nop : > Hi! > > Am 05.01.2010 11:45, schrieb Richard Mann: >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Nop > > wrote: >> >>     Real cycleways with official signs are an obstacle to me that I need to >>     avoid. >> >> I know German cyclists are fast, but treating cycleways

Re: [Tagging] A first step towards bringing the wiki and tool support closer together

2009/12/9 Erik Johansson : > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Roy Wallace wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Craig Wallace wrote: >>> >>> See these pages: >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer >>> >>> As that pag

Re: [Tagging] Coastlines and structures

2009/12/8 David Fawcett : > I have a few questions on best/standard practices for delineating > coastlines and tagging the features. > > 1.  Is there general agreement on where the primary water body ends > and a contributing river starts? Last I heard it was a judgement call. Dependant upon Tidal

Re: [Tagging] parking

2009/12/8 Roy Wallace : > How should a parking lot be tagged, that is provided for customers, > e.g. at a restaurant, or retail business? It may be signed as such > (e.g. "Customers only"), or may not. Generally there is no gate > restricting access, parking is free, and you would generally assume

Re: [Tagging] parking

2009/12/8 Roy Wallace : > How should a parking lot be tagged, that is provided for customers, > e.g. at a restaurant, or retail business? It may be signed as such > (e.g. "Customers only"), or may not. Generally there is no gate > restricting access, parking is free, and you would generally assume

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-newbies] Community Centres

2009/11/22 Nick Austin : > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Karl wrote: >> Your description >> >> The first thing that came to my mind was what we call a "community >> hall", a multi-purpose building that can be rented by various local >> community groups, or by individuals for private functions.

Re: [Tagging] How to tag un-named roundabout?

2009/11/21 Dave F. : > Paul Johnson wrote: >> If it really doesn't have any >> name at all, then noname=yes is awesome because it solves the human >> problem, too. >> > This discussion has been flogged to death on other forums, but obviously > needs repeating. > > People are incorrectly marking way

Re: [Tagging] Are tunnels only below ground? (Was

2009/11/4 Peter Childs > > > 2009/11/4 Martin Koppenhoefer > > 2009/11/4 Richard Bullock >> >>> >>> We don't *have* to stick to dictionary definitions here when tagging, as >>> long as the meaning is clear; >>> >>> ex

Re: [Tagging] Are tunnels only below ground? (Was

2009/11/4 Martin Koppenhoefer > 2009/11/4 Richard Bullock > >> >> We don't *have* to stick to dictionary definitions here when tagging, as >> long as the meaning is clear; >> >> exactly, this is not generally about dictionary definitions but about the > meaning of words. Dictionaries can give yo

Re: [Tagging] Are tunnels only below ground? (Was

2009/11/4 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) > oh and I forgot to give a word of warning in the other direction. Some > structures that you might think are bridges are actually tunnels because of > the way they were constructed, but I'll leave that to another day ;-) > > Cheers > > Andy > > >-O

Re: [Tagging] The current problem with tagging

2009/10/19 Martin Koppenhoefer : > 2009/10/19 Erik Johansson : >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer >> wrote: >>> 2009/10/19 John Smith : 2009/10/19 Martin Koppenhoefer : > 1. mapfeatures Only covers a very limited subset of tags. >>> >>> the most used ones.

Re: [Tagging] Best practice regarding addr:housenumber and POIs

2009/10/15 Markus Lindholm : > Hi > > I'm wondering what is best practice regarding tagging addr:housenumber > and POIs, e.g. amenity=restaurant. > Let's assume that on Mainstreet 10 there's a restaurant named Thai > Wok. Should there be one node or two? > One single node with the tags addr:street,

Re: [Tagging] How to tag house numbers based on decametres?

2009/10/12 Anthony : > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:02 AM, John Smith wrote: >> 2009/10/12 Anthony : >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:15 AM, John Smith >>> wrote: The only problem then is how to tag the start/end of a numbering section, based on that document major roads are broken up into >