Re: [Tagging] Amenity key

2010-10-22 Thread Claudius
Am 22.10.2010 18:28, David Murn: On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 07:55 +0200, Peter Körner wrote: Am 21.10.2010 23:29, schrieb Sean Horgan: The definition of such a tag/key that is so common the database (3+% according to taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/amenity), needs more than a single li

Re: [Tagging] Amenity key

2010-10-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/22 Sean Horgan : > A short definition is great but I think the wiki page could use a little > more explanation *after* the definition, e.g. some examples, references to > supporting  sources like wikipedia. while it is convenient to link to wikipedia I don't like the idea very much that t

Re: [Tagging] Amenity key

2010-10-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/22 Nathan Edgars II : > There are two types of thing that use the amenity tag: > Small objects that are usually inside others, like water fountains and > post boxes > Larger objects that may take up entire lots, like schools and restaurants > > Perhaps it would make sense to treat these dif

Re: [Tagging] Amenity key

2010-10-22 Thread Sean Horgan
A short definition is great but I think the wiki page could use a little more explanation *after* the definition, e.g. some examples, references to supporting sources like wikipedia. I also think that it is worth mentioning and linking to pertinent mail archive threads on the use of the tag as it

Re: [Tagging] Amenity key

2010-10-22 Thread Nathan Edgars II
There are two types of thing that use the amenity tag: Small objects that are usually inside others, like water fountains and post boxes Larger objects that may take up entire lots, like schools and restaurants Perhaps it would make sense to treat these differently? __

Re: [Tagging] Amenity key

2010-10-22 Thread Dave F.
On 21/10/2010 22:29, Sean Horgan wrote: The definition of such a tag/key that is so common the database (3+% according to taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/amenity), needs more than a single line definition. I see nothing wrong with the vast majority of the usages of amenity. The

Re: [Tagging] Amenity key

2010-10-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/21 Sean Horgan : > The definition of such a tag/key that is so common the database (3+% > according to taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/amenity), needs > more than a single line definition. Why? The shorter the definition, the better. The definitions should be precise and con