Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread Lennard
John Smith wrote: > So... > > kosher=yes > kosher=rabbanut > kosher=badatz Thanks for stating the bleeding obvious, I would never have thought of this myself. BTW: It's perfectly alright to use your magic eraser, and actually cut off large portions of what you're replying to. We've read that

Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread John Smith
2009/10/16 Lennard : > John Smith wrote: > >> So... >> >> kosher=yes >> kosher=rabbanut >> kosher=badatz > > Thanks for stating the bleeding obvious, I would never have thought of > this myself. > > > BTW: It's perfectly alright to use your magic eraser, and actually cut > off large portions of wha

Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread Lennard
John Smith wrote: > No need for sarcasim either, if you don't want to see it again get a > better MUA that hides it... At least that's what people are told when > their MUA doesn't support other features... Some people just don't listen when things are alluded to them, never mind when they're out

Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread John Smith
2009/10/16 Lennard : > John Smith wrote: >> No need for sarcasim either, if you don't want to see it again get a >> better MUA that hides it... At least that's what people are told when >> their MUA doesn't support other features... > > Some people just don't listen when things are alluded to them,

Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/10/16 Lennard : > > BTW2: It's halal. What you lack in replying restraint, you make up for > with extra letters? > Maybe where you come from, they write it that way. Not near me they don't. And seeing as it is an English transliteration of a foreign language term, don't expect consistency in

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-16 Thread Randy Thomson
> Alternatively, can you add a tag on the ways of > "addr:inclusion=actual" (as opposed to "addr:inclusion=potential")? > Then give me your username. I'll find the ways based on that tag. > > With this tag and 15-20 houses per way, I'm sure I can fix them faster > than you can add them. This as

Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread Lennard
Stephen Hope wrote: > Maybe where you come from, they write it that way. Not near me they > don't. And seeing as it is an English transliteration of a foreign > language term, don't expect consistency in spelling. I've lived in Where is 'near me', then? > countries were it is pronounced hah-lah

Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread John Smith
2009/10/16 Lennard : > Stephen Hope wrote: > >> Maybe where you come from, they write it that way. Not near me they >> don't. And seeing as it is an English transliteration of a foreign >> language term, don't expect consistency in spelling.  I've lived in > > Where is 'near me', then? > >> countri

Re: [Tagging] schools

2009-10-16 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Stephen Hope wrote: >Sent: 15 October 2009 3:01 AM >To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools >Subject: Re: [Tagging] schools > >I think the operator tag needs some careful documentation if you're >going to use it this way. > >Take this local (to me) school as an example >www.stjosephsbrackenr

Re: [Tagging] schools

2009-10-16 Thread John Smith
2009/10/16 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) : > tenant=). If there are more parties in the chain then its not so difficult > to think of appropriate tags. And as you say, if the role is governance, > then an administrator= tag might work. I think you may have similfied things a little too much, an

Re: [Tagging] Best practice regarding addr:housenumber and POIs

2009-10-16 Thread Randy Thomson
Anthony wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Markus Lindholm > wrote: > > I guess the follow-up question then is: what if there are multiple > > POIs that have the same addr:housenumber? Should it be duplicated on > > all the POIs? > > If you're going to add a distinguishing address featur

Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread Liz
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Lennard wrote: > BTW2: It's halal. What you lack in replying restraint, you make up for > with extra letters? My keyboard doesn't write Arabic, but I'm quite sure it ain't halal or hallall or halall - that any transliteration is probably missing something On a social scale,

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Richard Mann
Rather than having a bot go round making the data more complicated (and in the case of very large lakes with lots of islands, and ponds on those islands, it would be very, very complicated), surely it is better to have a table available somewhere for people to go look up whether a polygon has multi

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/15 Anthony : > "School" and "lake" are not landuses though, are they? might be, but you'll surely find 2 landuses (as used in OSM) on the same place. > I'm not even sure "forest" is a proper "landuse" tag.  I guess if it's > meant to mean "tree farm" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_far

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On jeudi 15 octobre 2009, Anthony wrote: > > now ease our pain and accept it. > > I do accept it, but it's wrong, so I want to fix it. That is reasonnable thinking. What ever the solution is (fix it in the osm database automatically, construct export aware with the fix, re-think the multipoly

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/15 sly (sylvain letuffe) : > On jeudi 15 octobre 2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> For the lake in the forest: do you agree that someone would say: the >> lake (pond) is in the forest? Like a way in the forest, which doesn't >> have trees growing on it, but still is in the forest. It is n

Re: [Tagging] kosher amenities

2009-10-16 Thread Ulf Lamping
Liz schrieb: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Lennard wrote: >> BTW2: It's halal. What you lack in replying restraint, you make up for >> with extra letters? > My keyboard doesn't write Arabic, but I'm quite sure it ain't halal or > hallall > or halall - that any transliteration is probably missing somethi

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/15 Anthony : > I fully agree with you - as I said, I think landuse=forest should be > reserved for things like tree farms, where the *use* of the land is > growing trees. that might be your personal opinion, but don't expect mappers worldwide to map according, as they treated it differentl

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/10/15 Ben Laenen : > Anthony wrote: >> The problem with the landuse tag is it's being used for multiple >> things.  On one hand, it's being used to describe what the land is >> being used for - if people are using the land as their residence, the >> land is tagged landuse=residential.  On the

Re: [Tagging] Lakes, islands and multipolygons

2009-10-16 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On vendredi 16 octobre 2009, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > Currently big lakes in Finland have been tagged as coastlines which is a > good workaround and looks correct in slippy maps. However, it is not > right, because they are not seas but just lakes. I would myself prefer to use something else to

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/10/15 Ben Laenen : >> Anthony wrote: >> The only way I see we can solve all this is to get a new tag which is >> exclusively used for ground cover. Such a tag would then stop having all >> ambiguity, and stop all discussions like

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/10/16 Martin Koppenhoefer > > +1, I agree. Inside a landuse=residential we could than map the > different surfaces. I'd suggest to use the key surface for the > ground-cover, or is there a problem with it? > > Having a ground-cover tag would be perfect. Emilie Laffray __

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On vendredi 16 octobre 2009, Emilie Laffray wrote: > 2009/10/16 Martin Koppenhoefer > > > > > +1, I agree. Inside a landuse=residential we could than map the > > different surfaces. I'd suggest to use the key surface for the > > ground-cover, or is there a problem with it? > > > > > Having a grou

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Laenen
Pieren wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > > wrote: > > 2009/10/15 Ben Laenen : > >> Anthony wrote: > >> The only way I see we can solve all this is to get a new tag which is > >> exclusively used for ground cover. Such a tag would then stop having all > >> ambiguity,

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: > It obviously failed at that completely. The most used tags > (landuse=residential, industrial, farm, commercial, military, retail...) don't > give any detail about ground cover. It has become so bad that I don't see a > way to even try to fix th

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Laenen
Pieren wrote: > It doesn't fail so much because most of the time, landuse values are > exclusive (residential, industrial, forest, etc). It is already enough > complicated to add polygones or multipolygones for landuse. We can see > that this is only done in countrysides or small urban areas but no

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Richard Mann wrote: > Rather than having a bot go round making the data more complicated (and in > the case of very large lakes with lots of islands, and ponds on those > islands, it would be very, very complicated), surely it is better to have a > table available

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Ben Laenen wrote: > Residential isn't exclusive at all. Not to say that what it's actually used > for in OSM can have different meanings amongst different mappers. You'll find > many parks in OSM for example inside a residential polygon. I've never seen > holes in

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Anthony wrote: > Land use is generally studied on a parcel by parcel basis. A typical example of a land use map: http://cityofypsilanti.com/maps/images/mastermap2006www.jpg ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: > Residential isn't exclusive at all. Not to say that what it's actually used > for in OSM can have different meanings amongst different mappers. You'll find > many parks in OSM for example inside a residential polygon. park is "leisure", not "la

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Pieren wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Anthony wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Anthony wrote: >>> Land use is generally studied on a parcel by parcel basis. >> >> A typical example of a land use map: >> http://cityofypsilanti.com/maps/images/

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On vendredi 16 octobre 2009, Ben Laenen wrote: > By far > most uses I've seen for landuse=residential are for areas which are > generally > used for where people live, and usually have entire villages or cities > inside Terribly true. > Either the landuse=residential/industrial/... kind of

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Laenen
Anthony wrote: > Well then "ground cover" isn't what we need. We need "land use". > > Land use is generally studied on a parcel by parcel basis. The fact > that OSM mappers make these huge polygons which cover entire towns is > fine, as an approximation, but ultimately we should be striving to g

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Ben Laenen wrote: > Anthony wrote: >> Well then "ground cover" isn't what we need.  We need "land use". >> >> Land use is generally studied on a parcel by parcel basis.  The fact >> that OSM mappers make these huge polygons which cover entire towns is >> fine, as a

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Anthony wrote: >> Land use is generally studied on a parcel by parcel basis. > > A typical example of a land use map: > http://cityofypsilanti.com/maps/images/mastermap2006www.jpg > Here is another "typical" examp

Re: [Tagging] Best practice regarding addr:housenumber and POIs

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Randy Thomson wrote: > Anthony wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Markus Lindholm >> wrote: >> > I guess the follow-up question then is: what if there are multiple >> > POIs that have the same addr:housenumber? Should it be duplicated on >> > all the PO

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Laenen
Anthony wrote: > Maybe we need "ground cover". I'm not convinced of it, but maybe we > do. Well, all topographical maps I've seen seem to be convinced of ground cover. This is ground cover for example: http://www.ngi.be/Templates/zoom.htm?doctitle=uittreksel&image=../images/1/1/extr10_vismijn.jp

Re: [Tagging] tagging the multipolygon model (was landuse and military)

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Ben Laenen wrote: > Anthony wrote: >> Maybe we need "ground cover".  I'm not convinced of it, but maybe we >> do. > > Well, all topographical maps I've seen seem to be convinced of ground cover. > > This is ground cover for example: > http://www.ngi.be/Templates/z

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularlyskippednumbers

2009-10-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Randy Thomson wrote: > >> Alternatively, can you add a tag on the ways of >> "addr:inclusion=actual" (as opposed to "addr:inclusion=potential")? >> Then give me your username.  I'll find the ways based on that tag. >> >> With this tag and 15-20 houses per way, I'm

Re: [Tagging] Lakes, islands and multipolygons

2009-10-16 Thread Sam Vekemans
hi all, I worked a little more off the coast of tofino http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.1205&lon=-125.9333&zoom=12&layers=0B00FTF You can see where the error is.. The error was (hopefully) caused by the clock-wise/ counter clockwise switch i did yesterday, just to see what happens. . Its int