Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-21 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > 2010/1/21 Roy Wallace >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Erik Johansson wrote: >> > >> > ... To meet both problems you can only do this: >> > alcohol=yes >> > coffee=no >> > pastries=yes >> > egg & chips=yes >> >> I like this

Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-21 Thread James Livingston
On 20/01/2010, at 6:44 PM, Peter Childs wrote: > Cafe, Bar, Pub etc. > > The line is weather it sells Beer, or other Alcoholic Beverages, As another data point, here's what I define them as in Australia - not guaranteed to be the same as other .au definitions: Restaurant - Place to go and get a

Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: > >> Maybe the English speaking world should start joining the rest of the world >> which have to learn definitions of each tag anyway. So OSM may have awkward >> tags for English speaking pe

Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/1/21 Steve Bennett > optimistic. IMHO, though, if there is a concept "cafe" that exists in > every country, and we can tag that as "amenity=cafe", then that's good > enough. It doesn't really matter whether a French café is the same as > an Australian one, or whatever. > +1. If you think th

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Mike N. wrote: > >> Instead: "Would it be more effective to store POI's in an open >> directory (i.e. indexed by address), rather than in the OSM database >> (i.e. indexed by lat/long)?" >> >> I think it's an interesting question. > >    I'm not convinced.  The ori

Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/1/21 Steve Bennett >> >> optimistic. IMHO, though, if there is a concept "cafe" that exists in >> every country, and we can tag that as "amenity=cafe", then that's good >> enough. It doesn't really matter whether a French café is

Re: [Tagging] What do we map

2010-01-21 Thread Adrian Brain
>>2010/1/21 Matthias Julius : >> > Shouldn't that be a service provided by the OSM API?  You can up and >> > download GPX tracks.  Wouldn't it be a helpful extension if one could up >> > and download geolocated photos, too? >> The other option is some kind of flickr API, they claimed in July last

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-21 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > I have a feeling the suggestion that Anthony was referring to was one > I made. It came up in the context of mapping architects, lawyers and > other professional bodies. There comes a point where they're not > really POIs or "amenities" any

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-21 Thread Alan Mintz
I downloaded from TagWatch NA a couple days ago, a list of power=station nodes and closed ways. I then audited each feature in southern CA (36 of them) against imagery and a list of known SCE substations and generating stations. Here are the results: Closed ways: - 1 unknown (unable to determin

Re: [Tagging] What's a power=station?

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > So, it seems that there is both correct and incorrect usage in similar > amounts so far. I hope to report back with power=sub_station and > power=generator, as well as a count of editing users, soon. Thanks heaps for collecting this information