Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Wendorff
On 01.09.2010 08:32, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: so "flow_direction" ? How would you know if local waterways have the wrong direction without specifically checking for the problem? OSM relies on the "enough eyeballs" principle for findin

Re: [Tagging] sport=beachvolleyball?

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi. Could be "invented" by non-English speakers. In German it's Beachvolleyball as one word - other languages could be similar, don't know. regards Peter On 01.09.2010 07:18, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I'm wondering if there's a reason this is beachvolleyball rather than beach_volleyball. Most

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 01/09/2010 04:09, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I don't know of any other feature where the direction of the way means something *without* another tag being added. natural=cliff, barrier=retaining wall junction=roundabout -- FrViPofm

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Craft

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Körner
Hi all friends of good tagging, The proposal is opened for one week now and I plan to put it to voting phase at Tu, 7.9.2010. If you have any comments or ideas or think that the proposal needs to be changed significantly, I'd like you to speak up during the next week. Peter Am 24.08.2010 2

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 01.09.2010 08:32, Nathan Edgars II: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: so "flow_direction" ? How would you know if local waterways have the wrong direction without specifically checking for the problem? OSM relies on the "enough eyeballs" principle for finding majo

[Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
Hello list, while wondering about street-related things with other folks on #osm...@oftc, we came to the question: why is Relation:associatedStreet needed at all? (Karlsruhe schema) I've always used it to associate housenumbers to the given street (I found a relation more error-proof than addr:str

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/1 David Paleino : > Hello list, > while wondering about street-related things with other folks on #osm...@oftc, > we came to the question: why is Relation:associatedStreet needed at all? > (Karlsruhe schema) > > I've always used it to associate housenumbers to the given street (I found a > r

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Claudius Henrichs wrote: > Did you check the "Water" view in the OSM inspector? It visualizes the > direction already: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ Only in Europe... ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:42:12 +0200, Simone Saviolo wrote: > 2010/9/1 David Paleino : > > In fact, we already have a relation for grouping a street together (various > > segments + "links"). That's Relation:route, with route=road. What about a > > "house" role to include housenumbers there? > > I'm

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:00 AM, David Paleino wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:42:12 +0200, Simone Saviolo wrote: > >> 2010/9/1 David Paleino : >> > In fact, we already have a relation for grouping a street together (various >> > segments + "links"). That's Relation:route, with route=road. What abou

[Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:09:22 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:00 AM, David Paleino > wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:42:12 +0200, Simone Saviolo wrote: > > > >> 2010/9/1 David Paleino : > >> > In fact, we already have a relation for grouping a street together > >> > (vari

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/1 Nathan Edgars II : > Why is a route relation needed to group the segments of a street? Not much to group the segments of a street, but to associate the house numbers to their street. Grouping the segments is a welcome side-effect. Ciao, Simone __

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:19 AM, David Paleino wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:09:22 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> Why is a route relation needed to group the segments of a street? > > I'm using that because I consider "Foo Avenue" as a logical unit, a > "route", even if the way is split (becaus

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:19:49 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > However, I'm using that because I consider "Foo Avenue" as a logical unit, a > "route", even if the way is split (because of oneways, different > classifications, different tags, whatever). See, for example: http://www.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:26 AM, David Paleino wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:19:49 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > >> However, I'm using that because I consider "Foo Avenue" as a logical unit, a >> "route", even if the way is split (because of oneways, different >> classifications, different tags, w

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:26:26 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:19 AM, David Paleino > wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:09:22 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> Why is a route relation needed to group the segments of a street? > > > > I'm using that because I consider "Foo

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On 9/1/10, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > No, I know what you're grouping. It's the why that I'm unsure about. > Where's the benefit in this relation? it would be useful to manage common data (e.g. the name) in the relation instead of having to update it in every part of the road I'm not so sure abou

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/1 Nathan Edgars II : > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:26 AM, David Paleino wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:19:49 +0200, David Paleino wrote: >> >>> However, I'm using that because I consider "Foo Avenue" as a logical unit, a >>> "route", even if the way is split (because of oneways, different >>>

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:31:22 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > Hello list, > while wondering about street-related things with other folks on #osm...@oftc, > we came to the question: why is Relation:associatedStreet needed at all? > (Karlsruhe schema) > > I've always used it to associate housenumbers t

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/1 David Paleino : > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:31:22 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > >> Hello list, >> while wondering about street-related things with other folks on #osm...@oftc, >> we came to the question: why is Relation:associatedStreet needed at all? >> (Karlsruhe schema) >> >> I've always us

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

2010-09-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Sorry forgot to cc: tagging list I'm working on a Master Tagging System spreadsheet, which will be available in the next few weeks. (depending on my time-schedual) It's great to see this top-usage, and i can cross-reference it with Steve's chart http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/user:Stevage/tag

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread Luca Brivio
In data mercoledì 01 settembre 2010 12:08:42, David Paleino ha scritto: > Ok, after some more discussion on #osm...@oftc , we kind-of-agreed that > route=road isn't suitable for all cases, and there are places in the world > where it's not suitable at all (because not all streets with the same name

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Craft

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Wendorff
Is the place where the Mapnik server is housed craft="tiler" in future? +1 for the proposal from me. Peter Wendorff On 01.09.2010 09:37, Peter Körner wrote: Hi all friends of good tagging, The proposal is opened for one week now and I plan to put it to voting phase at Tu, 7.9.2010. If you

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street

2010-09-01 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 01/09/2010 11:50, David Paleino wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:26:26 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: But why does this "logical unit" need to be grouped in a relation? I don't see any benefit to it. The benefit is intrinsic in data organization. and in object representation. -- FrViP

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 01/09/2010 12:08, David Paleino wrote: So we settled that Relation:street, as proposed in [0], would be more suitable, both for grouping segments together (yes Simone and Nathan, just for the sake of it, because I think it's convenient to keep them logically together with a relation), _AND_ fo

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

2010-09-01 Thread Matthias Meißer
Realy great, will help to cool down some discussions and very useful for developers to see what is important/supported. Matthias ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread Pieren
This discussion already happened two weeks ago. It started on the main list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-August/053070.html and went on the tag list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2010-August/003679.html Pieren _

[Tagging] crossing over living street

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi. I'm not sure wether it's the same issue international. Normally I tag crossings with three nodes: - node at the intersection of street and footway, tagged with highway=crossing, crossing=unmarked|uncontrolled|traffic_signals|... - nodes left and right of the crossing describing the curb, tag

Re: [Tagging] crossing over living street

2010-09-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/1 Peter Wendorff : > Living streets are - at least in Germany, so I'm not sure if this question > is specific for Germany or not - IMHO it is. You should ask this on the german ML. cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.or

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Erik Johansson
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Vincent Pottier wrote: > On 01/09/2010 04:09, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Nathan Edgars II >>  wrote: >> >>> >>> I don't know of any other feature where the direction of the way means >>> something *without* another tag being added. >>> >>

[Tagging] Advice on names for disused/abandoned railways?

2010-09-01 Thread Phil! Gold
The railway portion of the US TIGER import seems to have used the owner of the railroad for the name= tag. (And the owners appear to have been collected over the course of decades, so the current data doesn't reflect a lot of mergers and splits, but that's a separate issue.) As I come across thes

Re: [Tagging] Advice on names for disused/abandoned railways?

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Welty
On 9/1/10 10:06 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: The railway portion of the US TIGER import seems to have used the owner of the railroad for the name= tag. (And the owners appear to have been collected over the course of decades, so the current data doesn't reflect a lot of mergers and splits, but that's

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: "Erik Johansson" To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Vincent Pottier wrote: On 01/09/2010 04:09, Anthony wrote: On Tue,

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Peter Wendorff wrote: > On 31.08.2010 20:58, David Earl wrote: > > Just to throw something else into this discussion... >   highway=steps > It doesn't (or at least, isn't documented as) have direction, but _could_ > have in the same way as rivers (direction of way i

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/1 Anthony : > Couldn't incline=up/incline=down work for waterways too? > > Then incline=down could be default, and incline=unknown could be added > where the incline is unknown. This is not always true, think about culverts: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:D%C3%BCker.jpg http://www.ikt.

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/1 Anthony : > honestly, I can't figure out what that is or how it applies. I don't know how you call this in English (but probably it is called culvert), this is a closed tube for water which goes down on one side of the obstacle (e.g. road), the horizontally under it and up on the other s

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/1 Elena of Valhalla : > On 9/1/10, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> No, I know what you're grouping. It's the why that I'm unsure about. >> Where's the benefit in this relation? > > it would be useful to manage common data (e.g. the name) in the > relation instead of having to update it in every

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/1 David Paleino : > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:26:26 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> But why does this "logical unit" need to be grouped in a relation? I >> don't see any benefit to it. > > The benefit is intrinsic in data organization. +1, e.g. it allows you to download and select the comple

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/1 Anthony : >> http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&search=d%C3%BCker >> >> OK, got it (but the article is not mainly fitting): >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_siphon > > Ah, I see.  But that wouldn't be tagged as a waterway, would it? Why shouldn't it? Probably depends on the situation,

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/9/1 Anthony : > >>> http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&search=d%C3%BCker >>> >>> OK, got it (but the article is not mainly fitting): >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_siphon >> >> Ah, I see.  But that wouldn't be tagged as a water

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >> 2010/9/1 Anthony : >> http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&search=d%C3%BCker OK, got it (but the article is not mainly fitting): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_sipho

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Tyler Gunn
> Why shouldn't it? Probably depends on the situation, but if the occur > on an object that we generally tag with waterway, it should be clear. > This technique was already used in ancient Rome for special parts of > aqueducts (where they had to bypass an obstacle). Aren't they a kind > of culvert

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/1 Anthony : > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >>> Ah, I see.  But that wouldn't be tagged as a waterway, would it? >> >> Why shouldn't it? > > Because it's not navigable, therefore it's not a waterway.  And > because the wiki says to use tunnel=culvert, not wat

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
On 09/01/2010 02:03 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/9/1 Anthony : > > >>> http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&search=d%C3%BCker >>> >>> OK, got it (but the article is not mainly fitting): >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_siphon >>> >> Ah, I see. But that wouldn't be tagged as a w

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:14 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/9/1 Anthony : >> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer >> wrote: > Ah, I see.  But that wouldn't be tagged as a waterway, would it? >>> >>> Why shouldn't it? >> >> Because it's not navigable, therefore it's not a

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread SomeoneElse
On 01/09/2010 20:24, Anthony wrote: All the examples of waterways on that wiki page are open. Well; normally open - http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.327&lon=-1.74192&zoom=14 is an example of a bit of canal that isn't In any case, as I said, there's no reason the default has to be the

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
If a body of water that is not navigable is not a waterway, does this mean that any river that contains a waterfall is not a waterway? What about a stream or river that has portions that are too shallow to be navigable, or where the current is too rapid? What if it is navigable for only part o

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/1 Anthony : > examples of waterways on that wiki page are open.  A culvert is more > like man_made=pipeline, type=drain. yes, but if it is part of a waterway, it would for consistencies sake IMHO be better to keep it there. Above there was an example given about a river that goes through a

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread SomeoneElse
On 01/09/2010 20:15, John F. Eldredge wrote: I am not sure whether that would be classified as a type of culvert or not. Do we have any civil engineers on the mailing list who could answer that question? I'm not a civil engineer* but that certainly comes within the range of things that people

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:30 PM, SomeoneElse wrote: >  On 01/09/2010 20:24, Anthony wrote: >> >> All the >> examples of waterways on that wiki page are open. > > Well; normally open - > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.327&lon=-1.74192&zoom=14 is an example > of a bit of canal that isn't Can y

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread SomeoneElse
On 01/09/2010 20:53, Anthony wrote: Can you pardon my laziness and tell me whether or not the water in that part of the canal fills the entire tunnel. It doesn't - there's a narrow footpath to the side (presumably where boats were pulled along manually - the horses had to take the path over

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:09 PM, SomeoneElse wrote: >  On 01/09/2010 20:53, Anthony wrote: >> >> Can you pardon my laziness and tell me whether or not the water in >> that part of the canal fills the entire tunnel. > > It doesn't - there's a narrow footpath to the side (presumably where boats > wer

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
My guess would be that barrier=ditch would be for a ditch that is dry the majority of the time, and waterway=ditch would be for a ditch that is flooded most of the time. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction >From :mailto:o...@inbox.org Date :Wed Sep 01 15:42:5

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread SomeoneElse
On 01/09/2010 21:42, Anthony wrote: (While looking at this I also noticed we have barrier=ditch and waterway=ditch. That also sucks, unless there's some distinction between the two. Presumably that's different wiki editors arriving at the same feature from different angles? I'd say there we

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread John F. Eldredge
(I originally replied to the talk list, rather than to the tagging list.) ---Original Email--- Subject :RE: Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction >From :mailto:j...@jfeldredge.com Date :Wed Sep 01 17:42:37 America/Chicago 2010 Barrier=ditch would be logical for a ditch that is intended to