Re: [Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-05 Thread Stephen Hope
On 5 July 2010 12:21, Alan Mintz wrote: > I see the lanes tag > being useful primarily in determining likely speed possible in making > routing decisions, other factors being equal. It could also be useful in > rendering. Neither would seem to sway me to add the extra lane for such a > short dista

[Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Pulley
I'm was planning to add a church to OSM - the only problem is that the church doesn't have its own building, but rather uses a school hall. I've asked the Australian mailing list for ideas, but I thought I should ask here if anyone here has any tips or has come across a similar problem. T

Re: [Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-05 Thread Colin Smale
I have been thinking recently about how to represent "special lanes" in OSM. I have been working on a flexible scheme for this which I am calling "lane groups". Below is my current draft...If there is any support out there I will turn it into a wiki-page and get the ball rolling. All comments

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Cartinus
On Monday 05 July 2010 10:51:25 Mark Pulley wrote: > - add a node for amenity=place_of_worship inside the relevant   > building, with note=church meets in school hall (this is my preferred   > option but I'm not sure if there's a better way to tag it) I'd use this one. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Simon
2010/7/5 Mark Pulley : > I'm was planning to add a church to OSM - the only problem is that the > church doesn't have its own building, but rather uses a school hall. I've > asked the Australian mailing list for ideas, but I thought I should ask here > if anyone here has any tips or has come across

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 21:43, Martin Simon wrote: > I'd tag the school area with amenity=school and the hall with > building=school_hall & amenity=place_of_worship. > This allows you to keep building type and function seperate. How many uses should we tag, what if it's mostly used for basketball 5 days o

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Simon
2010/7/5 John Smith : > How many uses should we tag, what if it's mostly used for basketball 5 > days of the week? What about school dances? Parent/Teacher meetings? > Scouts? Well, from the description, this building has been used frequently and for a very long time as a religious meeting place b

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 21:59, Martin Simon wrote: > I don't know how many uses *you* want to tag - I want to tag the > important and stable ones for now. I'm guessing most school halls would have a number of regular purposes... ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Simon
2010/7/5 John Smith : > I'm guessing most school halls would have a number of regular purposes... building=school_hall... ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/7/5 John Smith : > How many uses should we tag, what if it's mostly used for basketball 5 > days of the week? What about school dances? Parent/Teacher meetings? > Scouts? We should map all of them. Please invent a scheme that allows for this ;-) cheers, Martin

Re: [Tagging] Tagging churches that use non-church buildings.

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 23:53, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > We should map all of them. Please invent a scheme that allows for this ;-) Seems like over kill, just like storing any bits of transient information in OSM does, but if I were to try to do something like this I'd tag the node/area with the primar

Re: [Tagging] Jewellery shop

2010-07-05 Thread pavithran
On 4 July 2010 15:33, Alan Mintz wrote: >> > I have seen http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=jewelry Since very few have objection with this tag . Can I ask it for rendering in osmarender ? Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com _

Re: [Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:21:36 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2010-07-04 13:41, Alan Millar wrote: >>How are people using the "lanes" tag on motorways? Do you count the >>on/off ramps that come and go? > > Generally, no. > > >>On a lot of the freeways near me, they have two main driving lanes on