Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Simon Biber
John Smith wrote: > On 29 July 2010 16:27, Simon Biber wrote: > > It seems the emergency phones used to render on Mapnik but now they don't. > > Should we re-open the original trac ticket (link below) or submit a new one >to > > get the new tagging rendered? > > Do you know if there was a part

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 18:10, Simon Biber wrote: > I was suggesting that if we have decided that these things in future will be > tagged as emergency=phone, then the renderer style sheet should be modified > so > that emergency=phone will show the icon that it currently does for > amenity=emergency_ph

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Simon Biber
On Thu, 29 July, 2010 at 5:45:47 PM, John Smith wrote: > Hmm I wasn't aware that amenity=emergency_phone renders already, I'll > revert my changeset. Thanks for that. I fully support the change to emergency=phone but reverting seems appropriate until we have the renderer support behind the mov

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread fly
Am 29.07.2010 10:15, schrieb John Smith: > On 29 July 2010 18:10, Simon Biber wrote: >> I was suggesting that if we have decided that these things in future will be >> tagged as emergency=phone, then the renderer style sheet should be modified >> so >> that emergency=phone will show the icon th

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 18:34, Simon Biber wrote: > Thanks for that. I fully support the change to emergency=phone but reverting > seems appropriate until we have the renderer support behind the move. > > I also think that amenity=police should change to emergency=police_station > and amenity=fire_sta

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Ross Scanlon
> Actually we could do both, we could add emergency=* tags to existing > POIs without any problems as far as I know, and in future remove the > old amenity tag. I think this is a better option. Just need to make sure that a date is set to remove the "old" amenity tags. -- Cheers Ross _

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 19:15, Ross Scanlon wrote: > Just need to make sure that a date is set to remove the "old" amenity tags. What would a reasonable time frame be? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/t

Re: [Tagging] office=*

2010-07-29 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:19 AM, John Smith wrote: > > Others disagree strongly that there is even a point to voting, if > there is a problem this usually shows during discussions. > > > We all agree that "voting" is not appropriate. Replace it by "opinion poll". Pieren __

Re: [Tagging] office=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 19:45, Pieren wrote: > We all agree that "voting" is not appropriate. Replace it by "opinion poll". What about general agreement on the mailing list? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/list

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Ross Scanlon
> On 29 July 2010 19:15, Ross Scanlon wrote: > > Just need to make sure that a date is set to remove the "old" amenity tags. > > What would a reasonable time frame be? > > ___ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreet

Re: [Tagging] Builders' Merchants -> Timber Merchant

2010-07-29 Thread ael
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:03:46PM +1000, John Smith wrote: > On 26 June 2010 19:24, ael wrote: > > What about trade? In uk "selling to the trade" implies an outlet which > > sells to professionals but also does ordinary retail. Admittedly this > > tends to be used in advertising to attempt to imp

Re: [Tagging] Builders' Merchants -> Timber Merchant

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 20:48, ael wrote: > I had hoped that something better would occur to me or someone else. > But yes, it seems as good as anything else, so let's go with it. Someone had made shop=wood, but that didn't seem as good as your suggestion... _

Re: [Tagging] Builders' Merchants -> Timber Merchant

2010-07-29 Thread pavithran
On 29 July 2010 16:18, ael wrote: >> > shop = trade >> >  trade=building_supplies|timber_yard|agricultural_supplies|plastics|... I like the trade=* but why call it shop=trade . I doesnt sound good . Is there a restrictions on 'keys' can't there be a key called 'trade' ? Regards, Pavithran -- p

[Tagging] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

2010-07-29 Thread Daniel Tremblay
I've posted a message in the newbies forum regarding my need. Those who responded suggested me to send the discussion to the tagging group. So, here I am. My need is to give cyclists more info when preparing their rides on road that are not cycleway (nor NCN, RCN, LCN). I saw the tag "rtc_rate"

Re: [Tagging] Builders' Merchants -> Timber Merchant

2010-07-29 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:13 PM, pavithran wrote: > I like the trade=* but why call it shop=trade . I doesnt sound good . > Is there a restrictions on 'keys' can't there be a key called 'trade' The benefit of shop=* is that renderers can use a generic shop icon. My suggestion: shop=trade_suppli

Re: [Tagging] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

2010-07-29 Thread fly
Am 29.07.2010 14:38, schrieb Daniel Tremblay: > My need is to give cyclists more info when preparing their rides on road > that are not cycleway (nor NCN, RCN, LCN). I saw the tag "rtc_rate" but > not find it very intuitive. We need this kind of tags also for cycleways. I know many areas where th

Re: [Tagging] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

2010-07-29 Thread Richard Mann
Daniel cycleway=shoulder looks like a good idea for those countries that routinely have a wide shoulder on country roads (I've seen them in Ireland; they aren't common in the UK) on urban roads (maybe even rural roads with centre lines), you could do cycleway=tight/critical/spacious, following th

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 20:21, Ross Scanlon wrote: > 1st October 2010 > > Gives time to get the rendering resolved. Does anyone have a problem, or see any problems, shifting the following tags into the emergency=* tag space? amenity=police -> emergency=police_station amenity=hospital -> emergency=hospit

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John F. Eldredge
Sounds like a good idea to me. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] emergency=* >From :mailto:deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Date :Thu Jul 29 11:29:46 America/Chicago 2010 On 29 July 2010 20:21, Ross Scanlon wrote: > 1st October 2010 > > Gives time to get the rendering resolved. Do

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:29 PM, John Smith wrote: > > amenity=police -> emergency=police_station > amenity=hospital -> emergency=hospital > amenity=fire_station -> emergency=fire_station > > > I don't see what hospital is doing here. An hospital may or may not have an emergency department/room. I

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Chris Hill
John Smith wrote: On 29 July 2010 20:21, Ross Scanlon wrote: 1st October 2010 Gives time to get the rendering resolved. Does anyone have a problem, or see any problems, shifting the following tags into the emergency=* tag space? amenity=police -> emergency=police_station amenity=hos

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 02:59, Chris Hill wrote: > Firstly, not all hospitals are emergency hospitals, so I think that is a bad > idea. Point taken... > Secondly John, you seem to have unilaterally decided to make this change, > and actually implemented some of it in the course of an afternoon. Where di

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Chris Hill
John Smith wrote: On 30 July 2010 02:59, Chris Hill wrote: Firstly, not all hospitals are emergency hospitals, so I think that is a bad idea. Point taken... Secondly John, you seem to have unilaterally decided to make this change, and actually implemented some of it in the course

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 03:35, Chris Hill wrote: > You have already changed amenity=ambulance_station to > emergency=ambulance_station, which was not listed above, so you have already > started to make these worldwide changes. It wasn't documented at all on the wiki, at all, so if it was so important why

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Brian Quinion
>> Discussing this for a day on the Tagging list is not enough for you to make >> this change. > > How much time should it take? I didn't really set a dead line but was > trying to get comments on the idea... A change that breaks every editor / renderer / search & data user ? 6 months minimum bef

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 04:09, Ian Dees wrote: > I don't understand this argument. Doesn't every tag change anywhere "break > every editor/renderer/search/data user" whether or not you think it is > correct? It's slightly amusing how it comes up every now and then about what to do about depreciating tags

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Tobias Knerr
John Smith wrote: > Does anyone have a problem, or see any problems, shifting the > following tags into the emergency=* tag space? > > amenity=police -> emergency=police_station > amenity=hospital -> emergency=hospital > amenity=fire_station -> emergency=fire_station Yes, I have a problem with it

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 04:36, Tobias Knerr wrote: > Yes, I have a problem with it: I don't see any advantage of having to > remember both the key and the value used for an object type. Just leave The advantage is you can do a generic emergency icon and have that render for anything that doesn't have a m

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Brian Quinion
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Brian Quinion > wrote: >> >> >> Discussing this for a day on the Tagging list is not enough for you to >> >> make >> >> this change. >> > >> > How much time should it take? I didn't really set a dead line but was

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 04:54, Toby Murray wrote: > If there IS a change for medical stuff, I would personally rather see > the medical=* proposal be used. At this stage it'd be nice to sort out the emergency=* issue before trying to tackle anything else :) I agree with Chris that it probably isn't a go

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Tobias Knerr
John Smith wrote: > On 30 July 2010 04:36, Tobias Knerr wrote: [...] >> stuff like this in amenity, that way we just need to know the value to >> tag it. "amenity" is the default key for features like this anyway. > > Which also means the amenity name space is pretty crammed full of > disparate t

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 05:16, Tobias Knerr wrote: > It's true that choosing a common key "emergency" makes it easier if you > want to treat police stations and hospitals the same way in an > application. But if you want to treat doctors and hospitals the same > way, then it's pretty useless. Don't get m

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/29 Pieren : > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:29 PM, John Smith > wrote: >> >> amenity=police -> emergency=police_station >> amenity=hospital -> emergency=hospital >> amenity=fire_station -> emergency=fire_station >> >> > > I don't see what hospital is doing here. An hospital may or may not have

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Liz
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Tobias Knerr wrote: > There is no single appropriate categorization for all purposes. > Therefore, categorization of features is a renderer decision and > shouldn't be hardcoded into tagging. So I propose a new Key "thing" and we can put everything under "thing". Let's never w

Re: [Tagging] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

2010-07-29 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Tremblay wrote: > So, if I come back to my little cyclist need, I wonder if I could simply put > cycleway=shoulder.  That would show that: there is a shoulder, it is large > enough to accomodate cycling, cycling is authorized on this road, shoulder > is not

Re: [Tagging] What do others call this?

2010-07-29 Thread Steve Doerr
Perhaps we need a factory_outlet tag? This is just a particular case of a factory outlet. If the factory is tagged as a winery and the shop as a factory outlet, the picture is complete. -- Steve ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:29:46 +1000 John Smith wrote: > > 1st October 2010 > > > > Gives time to get the rendering resolved. > > Does anyone have a problem, or see any problems, shifting the > following tags into the emergency=* tag space? > > amenity=police -> emergency=police_station > amenity

Re: [Tagging] What do others call this?

2010-07-29 Thread Richard Welty
On 7/29/10 6:45 PM, Steve Doerr wrote: Perhaps we need a factory_outlet tag? This is just a particular case of a factory outlet. If the factory is tagged as a winery and the shop as a factory outlet, the picture is complete. in the US, factory outlet is a term that has become much abused and

Re: [Tagging] What do others call this?

2010-07-29 Thread John F. Eldredge
Yes, factory_outlet would be a good solution. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] What do others call this? >From :mailto:steve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk Date :Thu Jul 29 17:45:08 America/Chicago 2010 Perhaps we need a factory_outlet tag? This is just a particular case of a factor

[Tagging] tagging bus stops served by more than one public transportation agency

2010-07-29 Thread Ed Hillsman
Hi A few weeks ago, I posted the following question to talk-transit (edited here slightly from the original post, based on the limited feedback received there). Given the specialized focus of the problem, I did not post it to the tagging listserv, but I had very limited response to the qu

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Ross Scanlon
> Better yet - just don't change it. This sort of change just isn't > worth the pain and hundreds of developer hours that could be better > spent on moving the project forward. Yes - this sort of change might > make the tag heirachy prettier - but not enough to justify the work. Garbage. It's n

Re: [Tagging] What do others call this?

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 08:45, Steve Doerr wrote: > Perhaps we need a factory_outlet tag? This is just a particular case of a > factory outlet. If the factory is tagged as a winery and the shop as a > factory outlet, the picture is complete. Except as Richard pointed out, most factory outlets are no wher

Re: [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 06:44, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > I second this. Emergency namespace must have definitely essential > things, but not all things. emergency=ambulance_station is definitely > right, but not emergency=hospital. It rises interesting question > though - I would suggest to tag emergency

Re: [Tagging] Builders' Merchants -> Timber Merchant

2010-07-29 Thread ael
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:56:51PM +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:13 PM, pavithran wrote: > > I like the trade=* but why call it shop=trade . I doesnt sound good . > > Is there a restrictions on 'keys' can't there be a key called 'trade' > > The benefit of shop=* is that

Re: [Tagging] Builders' Merchants -> Timber Merchant

2010-07-29 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On 7/30/10, ael wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:56:51PM +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:13 PM, pavithran wrote: >> > I like the trade=* but why call it shop=trade . I doesnt sound good . >> > Is there a restrictions on 'keys' can't there be a key called 'trade' >> >>