Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Instead of voting

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/12 James Livingston : > If there is a wiki page which describes a tag in a limited way, and I > want to document how I've used it, what should I be doing? IMHO you should either try to find out that your definition of the tag is the one the majority of mappers supports (and uses), or you

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (boundary=military)

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/13 Gilles Corlobé : > Hello everybody, > > I propose to add a tag "boundary=military" : the problem is that, with the > existing tags, it's almost impossible to mark correctly lots of data, like > (non limitative list) forest, scholl, parking lot, … > > Rather than multiplying the "military

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Visual map for the blind

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/12 : >> >> What tag would you use for bus/tram stops with a "i" button that reads >> >> out the information about trams soonest to arrive, aloud? >> > >> > I have never seen those before. >> > >> > Not proposed yet, but I guess many things need explanation, >> > so I would tag it like that

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (boundary=military)

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/13 Martin Koppenhoefer : > 2009/10/13 Gilles Corlobé : >> Hello everybody, >> >> I propose to add a tag "boundary=military" : the problem is that, with the >> existing tags, it's almost impossible to mark correctly lots of data, like >> (non limitative list) forest, scholl, parking lot, … >

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (boundary=military)

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/13 John Smith : >> This does not sound completely strange, but still incorporates some >> problems (all currently tagged landuse=military will get deprecated). >> I don't see the big problem here, as you can >> 1. draw a landuse=military around the whole area (and probably >> military=barra

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Google has dual carriage way where it's not built yet

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/12 Ben Laenen : >> I made a proposal: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:planned > > > So what's the difference with highway=proposed + proposed=...? > > I can't seem to find the wiki page, but highway=proposed is already in use and > it's rendered in the Mapnik layer. maybe this on

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (boundary=military)

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/13 Martin Koppenhoefer : > 2009/10/13 John Smith : >>> This does not sound completely strange, but still incorporates some >>> problems (all currently tagged landuse=military will get deprecated). >>> I don't see the big problem here, as you can >>> 1. draw a landuse=military around the who

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Google has dual carriage way where it's not built yet

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Laenen
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/10/12 Ben Laenen : > >> I made a proposal: > >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:planned > > > > So what's the difference with highway=proposed + proposed=...? > > > > I can't seem to find the wiki page, but highway=proposed is already in > > use and it's ren

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (boundary=military)

2009-10-13 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/10/13 Martin Koppenhoefer > > > This does not sound completely strange, but still incorporates some > problems (all currently tagged landuse=military will get deprecated). > I don't see the big problem here, as you can > 1. draw a landuse=military around the whole area (and probably > milita

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Visual map for the blind

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/13 : > I would love to agree, but the needs of disabled persons are widely spread > over our tagging scheme anyway, and awareness of objects that refer to > accessibility is nearly zero. > There are categories for visual, hearing and walking impariment, colletcted > in the category "ac

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Mike N. wrote: > TIGER obfuscates the data by declaring the entire numbering range of a > zone: for example a "400 block / Even" containing houses 404 through 420 > would be declared as "range Even / 400-498" in TIGER.   For navigation > purposes, that gets you to

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (boundary=military)

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony
2009/10/13 Martin Koppenhoefer : > IMHO landuse=military is already what you want to express with > boundary=military. Then all the landuse=military tags can be changed, and landuse=military can be deprecated. On the other hand, ownership=military and/or access=military makes more sense than boun

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Mike N.
>> TIGER obfuscates the data by declaring the entire numbering range of a >> zone: for example a "400 block / Even" containing houses 404 through 420 >> would be declared as "range Even / 400-498" in TIGER. For navigation >> purposes, that gets you to within one block of an address. > > Maybe the

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Mike N. wrote: >>> TIGER obfuscates the data by declaring the entire numbering range of a >>> zone: for example a "400 block / Even" containing houses 404 through 420 >>> would be declared as "range Even / 400-498" in TIGER.   For navigation >>> purposes, that get

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Google has dual carriage way where it's not built yet

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/13 Ben Laenen : >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Proposed > > More or less. > > The syntax is just like your proposal, but instead of using "planned", it uses > "proposed". I see one big difference though: planned was not just for highways but for any feature. > Giv

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Mike N.
> Just because you're using address interpolation doesn't mean you have > to use the Karlsruhe Schema, though. If you have no idea where a > house is other than it's relative location on a street, you shouldn't > use the Karlsruhe Schema. You shouldn't randomly tag locations away > from the stree

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
actually I think that instead of discussing interpolation with regularlyskipped numbers you could map explicitly the nodes of the real numbers, thus getting a high-precision map instead of this interpolation-crab, that is much less useful then an actual accurate position ;-) just my 2 cents. chee

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread Sam Vekemans
Ok, so my big question is: Why are your property boundaries rendered with solid fill? Its not indicating land use, and should be rendered as a 'dash-dot-dot-dash' line. (at least thats how i remember it from drafting class) So if the property boundaries arnt filled in, then there is room to go aro

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Mike N. wrote: >> Just because you're using address interpolation doesn't mean you have >> to use the Karlsruhe Schema, though.  If you have no idea where a >> house is other than it's relative location on a street, you shouldn't >> use the Karlsruhe Schema.  You s

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/14 Sam Vekemans : > Ok, so my big question is: > Why are your property boundaries rendered with solid fill? > Its not indicating land use, and should be rendered as a > 'dash-dot-dot-dash' line. > (at least thats how i remember it from drafting class) > > So if the property boundaries arnt

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Mike N.
>> A relation would work, but would certainly hide addressing details from >> any untrained community wishing to submit corrections. > > We shouldn't jump through convoluted hoops avoiding relations simply > because the editors don't yet make relations easy to edit. It's not just the editors

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Mike N. wrote: > >>>  A relation would work, but would certainly hide addressing details from >>> any untrained community wishing to submit corrections. >> >> We shouldn't jump through convoluted hoops avoiding relations simply >> because the editors don't yet mak

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:26 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2009/10/14 Sam Vekemans : > > Ok, so my big question is: > > Why are your property boundaries rendered with solid fill? > > Its not indicating land use, and should be rendered as a > > 'dash-dot-dot-dash' line. > > (at least thats how i remember

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/14 Sam Vekemans : > But of course the landuse us 'unknown' by default. .. so what needs to be > done is to go around and find out what the actual landuse is. > ... of course there are voids there are voids all over the map of black > space. :) Swing and a miss... The property boundary

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
I made another example: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/5/5d/Dcdb-example.png It's clearer in this screen shot (using JOSM, JOSM has a black background so the transparent pixels are black) exactly what runs down the middle of these voids. ___ Tagg

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/14 John Smith : > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/5/5d/Dcdb-example.png Here's the after shot: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/b/bf/Dcdb-example2.png ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/li

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread Sam Vekemans
Then the yellow must be all the "landuse=residential" then :) As land use can extend past the property boundary, were there is an easment. Strike 3, im out. Since were on the tagging list, the sidewalks & waterworks like sewer lines, or underground cable lines, do we map these too, as the data i

Re: [Tagging] [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-13 Thread John Smith
2009/10/14 Sam Vekemans : > Then the yellow must be all the "landuse=residential" then :) In this instance I'd guess the same thing, but without a survey we won't know for sure. > As land use can extend past the property boundary, were there is an easment. Easements show up as a void also, altho