Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread Colin Smale
On 06/10/2010 00:12, John Smith wrote: Someone just added this, it's a good idea on principal, but is this the best way to tag it? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:highway&oldid=534629&diff=next The page for the overtaking tag appears to have been in existe

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Heritage

2010-10-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/5 Vincent Pottier : > Hi, > > > Nearly a year that the the page > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/heritage has been > started. > > I'm not shure that it has been announced on this list. > > They are allready some uses on the excellent tool : > http://taginfo.openstreetm

Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/5 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com : > I want to say that header files and lists of field names are not > covered by copyright in general. > we could fight over textual descriptions, but the list of tages and > basic information is not seen as a copyright-able information. > Otherwise you wou

Re: [Tagging] What exactly is a greenfield?

2010-10-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/5 Jason Cunningham : > Planning Permission is often not acted upon, > and we should be mapping 'whats on the ground' or a status that affecting > the land (eg Nature Reserve). Planning Permission is doesn't impact the land > unless acted upon, in which case the land should be tagged > landu

Re: [Tagging] What exactly is a greenfield?

2010-10-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/6 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer : > 2010/10/5 Jason Cunningham : >> Planning Permission is often not acted upon, >> and we should be mapping 'whats on the ground' or a status that affecting >> the land (eg Nature Reserve). Planning Permission is doesn't impact the land >> unless acted upon, in which

Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:46 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/10/5 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com : >> I want to say that header files and lists of field names are not >> covered by copyright in general. >> we could fight over textual descriptions, but the list of tages and >> basic informati

Re: [Tagging] [OSM Fork] Re: SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-06 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
The field names in general, the amenity=restaurant thing, that is not protected, i am sorry, but you cannot sue someone for copyright infringement if they copy that. forget it. It is the name of data structures and it is not a creative work, it is just a name. see Baystate Holding: Technical Inte

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > This came into the limelight in NL following a discussion about > single-carriageway (main) roads with a double white line (i.e. "do not > cross", effectively "no overtaking") and whether they should be modelled as > a dual carriageway as you a

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread Andrew S. J. Sawyer
I don't like the idea of tagging a dual-carriageway for a way that doesn't have a physical barrier in between. No passing zones should be tagged in a manner to denote when passing is or is not permitted by regulation. Andrew S. J. Sawyer On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:05, Colin Smale wrote: > On 06

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread Colin Smale
On 06/10/2010 21:05, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Colin Smale wrote: This came into the limelight in NL following a discussion about single-carriageway (main) roads with a double white line (i.e. "do not cross", effectively "no overtaking") and whether they should b

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
On 10/06/2010 06:05 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > This came into the limelight in NL following a discussion about > single-carriageway (main) roads with a double white line (i.e. "do not > cross", effectively "no overtaking") and whether they should be modelled > as a dual carriageway as you are suppos

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/6 Andrew S. J. Sawyer : > I don't like the idea of tagging a dual-carriageway for a way that doesn't > have a physical barrier in between. No passing zones should be tagged in a > manner to denote when passing is or is not permitted by regulation. While I generally agree with you, I also

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2010-10-06 at 21:20:08 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: > Some places but not all...At least in NL you are not allowed to turn > left or make a U-turn across a solid centre line, nor are you allowed to > cross the line to overtake anything at all. It's the same in Italy, but you can overtake if y

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread Colin Smale
On 07/10/2010 01:03, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: On 2010-10-06 at 21:20:08 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: Some places but not all...At least in NL you are not allowed to turn left or make a U-turn across a solid centre line, nor are you allowed to cross the line to overtake anything at all. It's t

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Overtaking Restrictions

2010-10-06 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2010-10-07 at 08:16:46 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: > On 07/10/2010 01:03, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: >> On 2010-10-06 at 21:20:08 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: >> It's the same in Italy, but you can overtake if you are an ambulance >> or another emergency vehicle, so I believe it is worth to keep >