Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: > So much for your "ground truth", eh? > [...] > Obviously you know nothing about this specific case, and should not > be making bogus suggestions about tagging. Could we calm this down a bit, please? Thank you. Richard tagging@ admin -- View this message in context:

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/21 Toby Murray : > The sign carries the name of this area. It is sitting in the middle of > a short section of split carriageway residential road indicating that > "you are now entering the Sharingbrook neighborhood. I would say that > includes the road. Yes, I'd also see roads as parts of

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 22:37 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 1/21/2012 10:30 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 22:23 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> Are there examples of places > >> where there is a one-to-one mapping between neighborhoods and > >> administrative units? > >

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/21/2012 10:30 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 22:23 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Are there examples of places where there is a one-to-one mapping between neighborhoods and administrative units? Portland, Oregon has fixed districts. So does New York City (though it calls th

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 22:23 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 1/21/2012 9:42 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 20:56 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> On 1/21/2012 8:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 13:39 -0600, Toby Murray wrote: > Unfortunately I don

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/21/2012 9:42 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 20:56 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/21/2012 8:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 13:39 -0600, Toby Murray wrote: Unfortunately I don't have a good picture of this myself so here is a kind of crappy streetview s

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 20:56 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 1/21/2012 8:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 13:39 -0600, Toby Murray wrote: > >> Unfortunately I don't have a good picture of this myself so here is a > >> kind of crappy streetview shot: http://kan.st/yG > >> > >>

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/21/2012 8:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 13:39 -0600, Toby Murray wrote: Unfortunately I don't have a good picture of this myself so here is a kind of crappy streetview shot: http://kan.st/yG The sign carries the name of this area. It is sitting in the middle of a short s

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 13:39 -0600, Toby Murray wrote: > Unfortunately I don't have a good picture of this myself so here is a > kind of crappy streetview shot: http://kan.st/yG > > The sign carries the name of this area. It is sitting in the middle of > a short section of split carriageway residen

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 08:13 -0500, Anthony wrote: > Part of it is set aside legally for putting things like roads and > sidewalks and light poles and gutters. That's landuse=highway, not landuse=residential. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Toby Murray
Unfortunately I don't have a good picture of this myself so here is a kind of crappy streetview shot: http://kan.st/yG The sign carries the name of this area. It is sitting in the middle of a short section of split carriageway residential road indicating that "you are now entering the Sharingbrook

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/21/2012 8:58 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, that's also the reason for which I prefer finer granular objects and not the huge ones (which btw. tend to become hardly managable multipolygon-monsters by the time). As opposed to a landuse for each small clump of parcels and each highway?

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/21 Anthony : > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Bryce2 Nesbitt wrote: >> The road is a road: it has meaning, semantics, access rules. >> It is fully capable of representing itself overlaid on various land >> use: be they forest, residential, military or commercial. > > I'm not talking about

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-21 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Bryce2 Nesbitt wrote: 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 purpose

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

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-18 Thread Simone Saviolo
Allow me to remind another advantage of a detailed landuse mapping. I've mapped cultivated land lot by lot around Vercelli. Not only this allows to detail the crop types (rather than saying that between Chivasso and Pavia it's "mostly" rice), but it also makes it possible to make precise and punctu

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-18 Thread Simone Saviolo
2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II : > On 1/17/2012 11:18 AM, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nathan Edgars II >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 1/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II  wrote: > > A residential street is u

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 09:42 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 1/17/2012 8:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II: > >> Splitting it at roads gives no benefit and complicates editing greatly. > >> This > >> is just ridiculous: > >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=3

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 1/17/2012 11:18 AM, Anthony wrote: >> And the primary use of the land is for travel (and not just travel to >> and from a house, the most common travel is probably between a house >> and work). > > Between a house and work is to or fro

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 11:18 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: A residential street is used for residential purposes: traveling to and from a house, parking cars

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 1/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II >>  wrote: >>> A residential street is used for residential purposes: traveling to and >>> from >>> a house, parking cars, playing ball... >> >

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: But why punch out the land taken up by road right-of-way within the subdivision? Because the la

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II >>  wrote: >>> >>> But why punch out the land >>> taken up by road right-of-way within the subdivision? >> >> >> Because the land is used (and z

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: But why punch out the land taken up by road right-of-way within the subdivision? Because the land is used (and zoned) for a different purpose. A residential street is used for residential purposes

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > But why punch out the land > taken up by road right-of-way within the subdivision? Because the land is used (and zoned) for a different purpose. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.o

Re: [Tagging] Mapping guidelines

2012-01-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 1/17/2012 8:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II: Splitting it at roads gives no benefit and complicates editing greatly. This is just ridiculous: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=35.323225&lon=-119.077089&zoom=18 how does that complicate anything? Connecting r