Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Casper Kersten
@Daniel Bégin You're welcome. Good luck and happy mapping! Op wo 18 jan. 2023 om 23:45 schreef Martin Koppenhoefer < dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 18 Jan 2023, at 19:25, Daniel Bégin wrote: > > > > I just wrote: “I used office=construction_company because it's the on

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 18 Jan 2023, at 19:25, Daniel Bégin wrote: > > I just wrote: “I used office=construction_company because it's the only > related tag in the wiki (Key:office).” +1, sorry hadn’t seen the rest of the conversation, for offices “office”. The landuse would be commercial

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 18 Jan 2023, at 16:28, Daniel Bégin wrote: > > For example, the mapping of a company that produces and installs precast > concrete could be tagged as… > > > > office=construction_company > > construction_company=precast_concrete > > > > but I have my doubts on

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Daniel Bégin
<mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 13:17 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools<mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: RE: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value Thank you all, First, I used office=construction_company because it&#x

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Daniel Bégin
ndows From: Casper Kersten<mailto:casperkerst...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 10:56 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools<mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value Hello. I suggest that you

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread bkil
Can you ring the doorbell and purchase or order something from that office? If yes, you could consider it to be a kind of shop. If it is only a reseller, consider: shop=trade + trade=building_supplies + sells=precast_concrete or even shop=doityourself. If it is manufacturing the said goods, consi

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Casper Kersten
@Marc_marc You make a good point, but I see it more as a way of linking tags, as you suggested before. That said, I hadn't noticed that the tag office=construction_company is already documented and in use, so I guess that would be a good tag to use. * https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aoffi

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Marc_marc
Le 18.01.23 à 16:53, Casper Kersten a écrit : office=company + company=construction what's the added value versus office=construction ? for me office=company is only usefull is you don't known that kind of company quite close to office=yes. if you known the company=*, it's a tautology __

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Marc_marc
Le 18.01.23 à 16:22, Daniel Bégin a écrit : the mapping of a company that produces and installs precast concrete could be tagged as… office=construction_company construction_company=precast_concrete but I have my doubts on the best way to do it. Any suggestion? tag linking (A=B B=C) is ver

Re: [Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Casper Kersten
Hello. I suggest that you have a good look at the following pages: * https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like * https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Joto/How_to_invent_tags Going through a proposal process isn't always necessary; you can just document your tag and give it the stat

[Tagging] Best practices for creating a categorical key=value

2023-01-18 Thread Daniel Bégin
I want to locate and identify the offices of different construction companies in my area. I found that office=construction_company would be a good start but I also want to identify the type of construction company, what it builds, its specialty. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any key that would