Re: [Tagging] inconsistencies in bridge

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Wendorff
On 28.09.2010 02:48, John Smith wrote: On 28 September 2010 10:38, Dave F. wrote: If historic data was kept within OSM it would become far to cluttered. Not if this data was filtered by default, and only shown if requested. The present method of showing everything is limiting for a number of

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/28 Elizabeth Dodd : > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:51:27 +1000 > John Smith wrote: > >> > So, "regular" roundabouts (i.e., those that are common, with >> > priority to the left) are tagged junction=roundabout, and >> > non-standard right-hand-priority ones are circular ways without the >> > round

[Tagging] Residential roads

2010-09-28 Thread Stephen Hope
I have a couple of questions as to if I should be marking certain ways as highway=residential or something else, and am looking for feedback. The definition given for residential roads is "Roads accessing or around residential areas but which are not a classified or unclassified highway." First,

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 02:50:35AM +0100, Dave F. wrote: > [traffic circles] > Do these genuinely still exist? I thought the French were the only ones > to have these & got rid of them when their roundabouts became > gridlocked & the rest of Europe took the piss out of them. :-) here in Italy

Re: [Tagging] Residential roads

2010-09-28 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:01:40PM +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: > First, I've recently done a couple of roads in the country. They're > either dead end roads or form some sort of web but are not connecting > roads in the sense that they go anywhere else in particular. One > example is about three or

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - social facility

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Sean Horgan : > Ok.  I'm seeing the trend here: succinctness. yes, maybe it's my personal preference, but I'd always go for the shorter version, if the content is the same.. >> >  Or is your point that >> > "assisted living" is a confusing term? >> no, not at all. You are describing t

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Sean Horgan : > office=wedding_planner sounds fine to me. +1 >  I'm actually going to need one of > those pretty soon ;-) congrats! cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Colin Smale
The discussion here (and in talk-nl) seems to boil down to the question whether these traffic circles are a subtype of roundabout, or a junction type in their own right. I fully support all those who suggest they are a separate junction type. My proposal was based on the premise that "most people"

Re: [Tagging] community centres

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Pierre-Alain Dorange : > Sean Horgan wrote: > >> agreed.  there should be no restriction on who owns/provides the service. > > Yes but then we must provide operator=* yes, we should encourage the use of operator, which might not be the same as proprietor though. It could be that the op

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Simone Saviolo : > intersections [1]. It is just a road that happens to be circular in > shape, with semaphores or stops along it. who get's the right of way, when the traffic lights turn off (say due to a technical problem)? The traffic in the circle or the one coming from the right? T

Re: [Tagging] inconsistencies in bridge

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Dave F. : > For those who want to keep historic records (& I think there should be), > they should take a record of current data at regular intervals & keep it in > a separate database. that's not a good option: those datasets will diverge more and more, and in the end all connection/to

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/28 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : > 2010/9/28 Simone Saviolo : >> intersections [1]. It is just a road that happens to be circular in >> shape, with semaphores or stops along it. > > who get's the right of way, when the traffic lights turn off (say due > to a technical problem)? The traffic in the ci

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Simone Saviolo : > 2010/9/28 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : >> 2010/9/28 Simone Saviolo : >>> intersections [1]. It is just a road that happens to be circular in >>> shape, with semaphores or stops along it. >> >> who get's the right of way, when the traffic lights turn off (say due >> to a techni

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread Mike N.
office=wedding_planner sounds fine to me. I agree with this. However, I have also seen a number of local shops which sell only wedding supplies (dresses, etc) but offer no wedding services. They could probably be reclassified as shop=clothes however. __

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/28 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : > 2010/9/28 Simone Saviolo : >> 2010/9/28 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : >>> 2010/9/28 Simone Saviolo : intersections [1]. It is just a road that happens to be circular in shape, with semaphores or stops along it. >>> >>> who get's the right of way, when the traffic

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Pieren
What I'm usually doing for such traffic circles is drawing a circle tagged "highway=*" + "oneway=yes" + a "note=this is not a roundabout". Pieren ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Colin Smale
> What I'm usually doing for such traffic circles is drawing a circle tagged > "highway=*" + "oneway=yes" + a "note=this is not a roundabout". If you leave it at that, a navigation program might not recognise it as a {roundabout|traffic_circle} so instead of saying "at the next roundabout take the

Re: [Tagging] inconsistencies in bridge

2010-09-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Martes 28 Septiembre 2010 10:28:56 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer escribió: [...] > an abandoned railway is current data. It is an abandoned railway > currently (as long as you don't excavate all foundations and draining > layers and remove them together with bridges and tunnels, you will > still have most

Re: [Tagging] Residential roads

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Welty
On 9/28/10 4:31 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:01:40PM +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: First, I've recently done a couple of roads in the country. They're either dead end roads or form some sort of web but are not connecting roads in the sense that they go anywhere else in part

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Mike N. : >> office=wedding_planner sounds fine to me. > >  I agree with this.   However, I have also seen a number of local shops > which sell only wedding supplies (dresses, etc) but offer no wedding > services.   They could probably be reclassified as shop=clothes however. yes, proba

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Martes 28 Septiembre 2010 09:06:44 Elena ``of Valhalla'' escribió: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 02:50:35AM +0100, Dave F. wrote: > > [traffic circles] > > Do these genuinely still exist? I thought the French were the only ones > > to have these & got rid of them when their roundabouts became > > g

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Welty
On 9/28/10 8:32 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/9/28 Mike N.: office=wedding_planner sounds fine to me. I agree with this. However, I have also seen a number of local shops which sell only wedding supplies (dresses, etc) but offer no wedding services. They could probably be reclassif

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Martes 28 Septiembre 2010 13:32:40 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer escribió: > 2010/9/28 Mike N. : > >> office=wedding_planner sounds fine to me. > > > > I agree with this. However, I have also seen a number of local shops > > which sell only wedding supplies (dresses, etc) but offer no wedding > > serv

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread André Riedel
2010/9/28 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : > yes, probably a specific tag would be suitable: shop=wedding_dresses > or shop=wedding_clothes. > Because nobody who looks for casual clothing would want to find a > specialized wedding shop, and usually who looks for a wedding shop > would want to exclude "normal"

Re: [Tagging] Residential roads

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Richard Welty : > but do get the speed limits and set maxspeed, as otherwise any > routing software will likely make wrong assumptions. if there is no > posted speed limit, find the one for the state in which you are > mapping as again, routing software will otherwise be forced to > make

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 André Riedel : > According to this I found an already exsiting tag in the wiki: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:clothes > > with clothes=wedding the page is from August 17th, I don't remember any notice here on tagging or on talk (or talk:de) and I see the general problem, th

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/28 Colin Smale : > If you leave it at that, a navigation program might not recognise it as a > {roundabout|traffic_circle} so instead of saying "at the next roundabout > take the second exit" it would produce confusing instructions. Another non-problem. > As you > enter the "roundabout" you

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread Simone Saviolo
2010/9/28 Simone Saviolo : > a satnav tells > me "third exit of the roundabout" It's unrelated, but Navit (the supposedly best available navigator that uses OSM maps) fails utterly at counting the exits of a roundabout. It will include also oneway ways entering the roundabout, so my actual second

Re: [Tagging] Residential roads

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Welty
On 9/28/10 9:08 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/9/28 Richard Welty: but do get the speed limits and set maxspeed, as otherwise any routing software will likely make wrong assumptions. if there is no posted speed limit, find the one for the state in which you are mapping as again, routing so

Re: [Tagging] community centres

2010-09-28 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > what about changing this to "The operator tag is used to name a > company, corporation, person or any other entity who is in charge of > the operation of a certain map object" and putting it on top of the > page. We could then put the stuff quoted above below "example

Re: [Tagging] community centres

2010-09-28 Thread Sean Horgan
sounds good, no objections. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:59, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/9/28 Pierre-Alain Dorange : > > Sean Horgan wrote: > > > >> agreed. there should be no restriction on who owns/provides the > service. > > > > Yes but then we must provide operator=* > > > yes, we shoul

[Tagging] operator and brand WAS: Re: community centres

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Sean Horgan : > sounds good, no objections. OK, as this is IMHO no real change, I put it in the wiki. Now I realized something else: according to the German ML for tagging certain objects 3 tags are useful: name, operator, brand e.g. a petrol station: name would be the _name_ of the s

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - social facility

2010-09-28 Thread Sean Horgan
I know the voting has started and changes to the proposal are off-limits, but I was considering the addition of "animals" to the social_facility:for subtag: {{tag|social_facility:for|animals}} - Takes care of homeless, lost, or abandoned animals. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_shelterwi

Re: [Tagging] inconsistencies in bridge

2010-09-28 Thread Dave F.
On 28/09/2010 10:28, M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/9/28 Dave F.: For those who want to keep historic records (& I think there should be), they should take a record of current data at regular intervals& keep it in a separate database. that's not a good option: those datasets will diverge m

Re: [Tagging] operator and brand WAS: Re: community centres

2010-09-28 Thread Sean Horgan
Hotels are similar to petrol stations in that many are independently owned and operated but rely heavily on the brand for marketing. Coffee shops, fastfood restaurants and any other franchise-business fall into the same bucket (starbucks, mcdonalds, home depot, Teleflora). name, operator, and b

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - social facility

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Sean Horgan : > I know the voting has started and changes to the proposal are off-limits, > but I was considering the addition of "animals" to the social_facility:for > subtag: > {{tag|social_facility:for|animals}} for me it's fine, but there is also a dedicated animal tag. It would sui

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-28 Thread ael
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:41:49PM +0200, Simone Saviolo wrote: > 2010/9/28 Simone Saviolo : > > a satnav tells > > me "third exit of the roundabout" > > It's unrelated, but Navit (the supposedly best available navigator > that uses OSM maps) fails utterly at counting the exits of a > roundabout.

Re: [Tagging] operator and brand WAS: Re: community centres

2010-09-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Martes 28 Septiembre 2010 18:56:10 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer escribió: > 2010/9/28 Sean Horgan : > > sounds good, no objections. > > OK, as this is IMHO no real change, I put it in the wiki. > > Now I realized something else: > according to the German ML for tagging certain objects 3 tags are useful

Re: [Tagging] operator and brand WAS: Re: community centres

2010-09-28 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/28 Noel David Torres Taño : > How to tag those? operator is the bank or the network? I'd say operator is the bank. cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] operator and brand WAS: Re: community centres

2010-09-28 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-09-28 11:43, Sean Horgan wrote: Hotels are similar to petrol stations in that many are independently owned and operated but rely heavily on the brand for marketing.  Coffee shops,  fastfood restaurants and any other franchise-business fall into the same bucket  (starbucks, mcdonalds, ho

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread Stephen Hope
What we generally have around here is a shop that both sells and rents formal wear - sometimes one sex, often both. They do weddings, school formals, black tie dinners etc. I'd call this a formal wear shop. One that sells nothing but wedding dresses is a subset of this (and very rare around here,

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Let's racionalize this all. Bussiness that sell bride dresses only [Comments here] Bussiness that sell ceremonial dresses (bride and bridmaiden, groom, black tie, New Year, cocktail dresses... men and women, even childs) [Comments here] Bussiness that sell decorative wedding stuff (decorations,

[Tagging] Weddings... who wants your money? [Was: Re: shop=wedding_office]]

2010-09-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Miércoles 29 Septiembre 2010 03:05:50 Noel David Torres Taño escribió: > Let's racionalize this all. > > Bussiness that sell bride dresses only They sell, so it's shop. I think shop=bride_dresses > Bussiness that sell ceremonial dresses (bride and bridmaiden, groom, black > tie, New Year, cock

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office

2010-09-28 Thread Simon Biber
Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > Bussiness that sell bride dresses only shop=clothes clothes=wedding_dresses > Bussiness that sell ceremonial dresses (bride and bridmaiden, groom, black > tie, >New Year, cocktail dresses... men and women, even childs) shop=clothes clothes=ceremonial > Buss

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office

2010-09-28 Thread john
It looks like you have come up with good solutions to all of the issues raised. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office >From :mailto:simonbi...@yahoo.com.au Date :Tue Sep 28 22:00:09 America/Chicago 2010 Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > Bussiness that sell bri

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office

2010-09-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Miércoles 29 Septiembre 2010 04:00:09 Simon Biber escribió: > Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > Bussiness that sell bride dresses only > > shop=clothes > clothes=wedding_dresses > > > Bussiness that sell ceremonial dresses (bride and bridmaiden, groom, > > black tie, > > > >New Year, cocktail

[Tagging] Map Feature Samples

2010-09-28 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, I'm creating a list of all of the existing map features, and looking for a nice example (node/way/area/relation) of every feature. I could pick one myself, but i figured i'd ask for help. I have a googledocs spreadsheet just about ready for it to be remotly added. A good exable of each,