* Mateusz Konieczny
> 21 Dec 2019, 12:00 by wolfg...@lyxys.ka.sub.org:
>> I suggest to keep the road classification consistent at least within
>> a country and try to solve the problem of roads in low-zoom maps at
>> the rendering level, by modifying the list of displayed road classes
>> until a t
* Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
> Above it was said that the highway=trunk vs highway=primary
> distinction is mostly for routing applications. But allowing a proper
> rendering is also a main goal of the road tagging system.
> While it's true that road class is useful for routing when there are
> two
* Dave F via Tagging [190913 21:37]:
> On 13/09/2019 16:14, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
>> That would be kind of redundant, wouldn't it? We already use other tags
>> for the current function of a building,
> I'm repeating much of my of my previous comment, but no,
* Joseph Eisenberg [190913 16:45]:
> I certainly recall reading about this in the wiki, but I agree that in
> common use, the building=* tag appears to be used mostly for the
> current function, rather than specifying a certain form.
That would be kind of redundant, wouldn't it? We already use ot
* Iago Casabiell [190907 18:29]:
> Exactly, so how do we solve this?
Very simple: By letting the people tag it that live there and have local
knowledge. They know what the place is called locally, and that usually
is based on a complex amalgamation of size, population, cultural,
economic and hist
Hi,
* Robert Riemann [190907 17:19]:
> I crosspost this topic from [OSM-talk-be] for its relevance in other areas of
> the card. I suggest in this mail to agree on a tag or create a new tag.
> I would like to generate a map of EU buildings in Brussels similar to this
> one: https://www.consili
* Tobias Knerr [190428 14:31]:
> On 28.04.19 13:51, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
>> "A place=hamlet often lacks verifiable borders. Hamlets in farming areas
>> often have scattered houses and farms extending outward for several
>> kilometers. In this case the approximate center of the place may be
>>
* Bryan Housel [190107 16:12]:
> And on “the wiki”, I have basically given up on the OSM wiki [..].
> If something is “not documented on the wiki” that means nothing because the
> wiki is not documentation.
That sounds kind of weird, because the Wiki basically only exists to be
used for document
* Eugene Podshivalov [181209 12:34]:
> вс, 9 дек. 2018 г. в 14:10, Marc Gemis :
>> We have tags for that (waterway=stream, ditch, ... / amenity=school,
>> college, university, kindergarten), I don't understand why we should
>> change the usage of name for that.
> How would you map American "stre
Hi,
* Imre Samu [181006 12:43]:
> the google sheet is not perfect
> better link for view:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DNNuPjjnp6oOXLS2Wtrn__NdCtFN7wy7Lvdm7K1bES0/edit?usp=sharing
thanks for sharing this. This does highlight not only translation
problems IMHO. While there are some
Hi,
* Joseph Eisenberg [180927 13:10]:
> Re: do “the current
> proposals would mean that any POI (not referring to a government
> building) in Brussels needs to be retagged to name:XX or add
> default:language:XX (?)
> There are no mandatory tags in OSM, nothing needs to be retagged. But there
>
* Christoph Hormann [180926 20:43]:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2018, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
>> it appears to me that before discussing possible solutions we should
>> better agree on what the problem is. So far I see several related but
>> different problems mixed into on
* Christoph Hormann [180926 17:53]:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2018, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> On 26.09.2018 16:14, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>>> Also in Germany we have features with no German name (most notably
>>> probably in regions with significant minority languages but also
>>> for example so
Summary first: This looks very good to me, and I think it is in line
with the discussion here in the last few days. I support this.
* Kevin Kenny [170920 20:39]:
> The last few messages in this thread seem to have quieted much of the
> discussion. Let me summarize my position, and see if we've a
* Mark Wagner [170807 20:45]:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2017 16:37:52 +0200
> Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>> On 7. Aug 2017, at 10:51, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>> I agree that some sort of river classification might be helpful but
>>> you cannot expect a mapper standing before a river to first analyse
>>> a
Hi,
* Volker Schmidt [170608 15:40]:
> I am looking into how to tag a frequent feature in my area, i.e. a siphon
> underpass, known in Italian as "botte a sifone" or "botte sifone" and in
> French as "pont siphon". This is a non.connecting waterway crossing where
> the lower waterway passes throu
* Michał Brzozowski [170413 16:41]:
> I don't see how going from "typology" you conclude it's strictly about
> form. Typology is about types, not saying with respect to what.
> When you look at top building values in Taginfo, it's clear to me
> these state purpose (house, residential, garage, apar
* Volker Schmidt [170412 07:54]:
> Any active passenger railway is, among other usages, for tourism. So
> usage=tourism seems to be redundant.
I think usage=tourism is used for railways that are used only for
tourism like rail excursions, dinner trains etc.
Wolfgang
(lyx@osm)
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Hi,
I'm not a railway expert, but like to comment anyway.
* Dave F [170411 23:41]:
> I've a length of railway track that runs along part of a disused line.
> It's not connected to the current network & run purely for tourism.
Well, the track IS operated, so the fact that it used to be part of
* Shawn K. Quinn [170312 23:51]:
> On 03/12/2017 04:42 PM, Tristan Anderson wrote:
>> What is the most appropriate landuse tag for vacant lots in urban areas?
>> That is, land that was previously occupied by a house or other building
>> that has been demolished, no trace of the building remains,
Hi,
* Colin Smale [170307 09:04]:
> [..]
> It is possible to have enclaves/exclaves for a territory which differs
> from the surrounding territory. Taking the US as an example, if we put a
> timezone tag on a State, there may need to be an overriding tag on a
> County or even possibly at a City l
Hi,
* Martin Koppenhoefer [170225 14:23]:
>> On 25 Feb 2017, at 12:16, Dave F wrote:
>> Won't the first node of the named way that's most upstream indicate its
>> start point by default?
>> What advantages will adding a specific 'it starts here' tag bring?
> it would be an explicit way to ta
* John Willis [170219 09:53]:
>> On Feb 19, 2017, at 8:01 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
>> +1
>> Regardless of the "intent" of OSM, this level of tagging does seem excessive
>> IMO. I've been following the thread and am amazed that this much attention
>> can be focused on developing tagging for was
Hi,
* joost schouppe [170211 09:43]:
> One of the defining small landscape elements in Flanders (and probably many
> rural areas in Europe) is the "knotted willow". I'm not sure if this is the
> right term in English, in Dutch "knotwilg" really is a thing.
> How would you tag such a thing? (I co
* Marc Zoutendijk [170108 21:02]:
>> Op 8 jan. 2017, om 20:20 heeft Tod Fitch het volgende
>> geschreven:
>> Based on usage in the United States, it sure sounds like leisure=park is the
>> tag to use for what you are describing. I see nothing in the wiki page [1]
>> for park that indicates it
Hi,
* Kevin Kenny [160906 20:38]:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:20 PM, ksg wrote:
>> The tag summit:register=* is not yet defined in the wiki, but is
>> widespread used in the Alps of Europe with > 600 instances.
>> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/summit%3Aregister#values
> OK, that sounds
* Mike N [160120 21:47]:
> On 1/20/2016 3:39 PM, Dominic Coletti wrote:
>> I see 808,000 uses of name_1 and 65,000 of name_2.
> Many of these are from the US TIGER import, and must not be
> automatically removed. They would go into alt_name , etc based on local
> knowledge.
The problem with
* Mateusz Konieczny [160109 13:12]:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:50:37 +0100
> Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
>> * Tod Fitch [160107 23:35]:
>>> My parents house is in a pretty rural part of Arizona and
>>> distinguishing between tracks and driveways or even residential
>&g
* Tod Fitch [160107 23:35]:
> My parents house is in a pretty rural part of Arizona and distinguishing
> between tracks and driveways or even residential roads can be difficult
> there. So my initial instinct was to say leave the ways in that part of
> Colorado as tracks as it can be hard to te
Hi,
* Thorsten Alge [150525 15:24]:
> Having the wikidata-tag enables an application to select the
> wikipedia-article in the language of the users choice or to easily load
> additional information from wikidata like a cities crest for displaying.
> The advantage would be that a user wouldn't get
I have placed a request to stop these edits on the users talk page and
warned him that I will ban him if this kind of working against the
community continues.
Please let me know if the problem continues, as I don't watch the tagging
list permanently.
Wolfgang
* Martin Vonwald [150127 11:56]:
> W
* Mateusz Konieczny [150114 15:45]:
> waterway=wadi is used (18 180 times) and has some support (for example JOSM
> and default map style).
> During implementing rendering of intermittent=yes I discovered major
> problem with this tag -
> the same waterway=wadi may be used for completely dried up
Hi,
* Pee Wee [14 19:20]:
> I thought I just wait some days for other to reply but unfortunately no
> more then yours. The question we still have is : What can we do? I suppose
> the DWG will only block when harm is done to the OSM database and not on
> any wiki pages. Anyone else for a reco
Hi,
* Serge Wroclawski [130918 00:53]:
> 1. We do not map land lots in OSM, for reasons that have been
> discussed many times.
this might be a case of the UK and the US being separated by a common
language. We are talking about allotments here, not parcels, which are
something completely differe
Hi,
* fly [130817 17:13]:
> On 16.08.2013 19:05, Masi Master wrote:
>> Hmm, I'm not sure that boundary is the right tag. Isn't it a border, and
>> not an area?
> Boundaries describe an area but you are right that they are not really
> boundaries, especially if the border lines are not clearly de
* Murry McEntire [130607 20:15]:
> [..]
> A summary as I understand it:
> We currently have English labels and definitions used for tags for bakery
> and confectionery that have language translation mismatches, especially
> based on common usage of the words.
> English cultures are comfortable u
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