[Tagging] Combo Weight Bridges

2011-01-12 Thread James Mast
Alright, I have a small bridge locally that has a duel weight limits on it. One for normal and one combo. This is the bridge in question: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/69968204 The sign goes as follows: (I can also provide a picture of it later if it's needed) BRIDGE = WEIGHT LIM

Re: [Tagging] Combo Weight Bridges

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi James. Here you see a typical double-sign at a German bridge: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_Burgtorbr%C3%BCcke.jpg As you can see, the distinction between oneway-traffic and two-way-traffic is usual here too. I assume the upper sign (showing 70/120) shows a tracked vehicle above

[Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re: new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/12 : > Having civilization as a subkey to historic is a good suggestion. Thank you all for your feedback. I made a starting page. I also added some initial values for historic:period to the page, but there is still space for more detail, e.g. historic:era to put the name of a regent/desp

Re: [Tagging] Combo Weight Bridges

2011-01-12 Thread Martin Simon
2011/1/12 Peter Wendorff : > Hi James. > Here you see a typical double-sign at a German bridge: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_Burgtorbr%C3%BCcke.jpg > > As you can see, the distinction between oneway-traffic and two-way-traffic > is usual here too. > > I assume the upper sign (showing

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re: newkey civilization

2011-01-12 Thread Robert Elsenaar
historic:period can also be interprtated by historical periods in fine arts. -Robert- -Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 4:40 PM To: j...@jfeldredge.com ; Tag discussion, strategy and related tools Subject: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civil

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re: new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:40 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2011/1/12 : > > I made a starting page. I also added some initial values for > historic:period to the page, but there is still space for more detail, > e.g. historic:era to put the name of a regent/despot or what the > classification

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re: new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread Robert Elsenaar
There is always a border where usefull meets unusefull. When mapmakers do not support object information on their maps, every extra information is useless. I think the period of a historic place is within the usefull information tags to a object. -Robert- From: Pieren Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re: newkey civilization

2011-01-12 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/12 Robert Elsenaar : > historic:period can also be interprtated by historical periods in fine arts. is this a problem? Where do you see conflicts when the tag is applied to an excavation site? Cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@ope

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re: new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/12 Pieren : > Am I the only one who is thinking that such information are better placed in > Wikipedia than in OSM ? Or many of this list readers decided to lazily shut > their mouth because they hope  that such tags will never become popular ? > What is the next proposal : a tag for the nam

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re:new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread john
Your examples are rather ridiculous. A Viking captain, or King Arthur's sword, would not be logical items to have on a map. A building or archaeological site likely would be on a map, and tagging them with the civilization and era would make it easy to generate special-interest maps. ---O

Re: [Tagging] Combo Weight Bridges

2011-01-12 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/12 Martin Simon : > These signs are refering to "military load class" ("militärische > Lastenklasse"), not to maxweight. > Other than the real weight of the vehicle, these classes contain > factors like the number of axles, overall dimensions of the vehicle > etc. yes, but for this discuss

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re: new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread Johan Jönsson
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer writes: > You are free to think whatever you want, but for my current mapping > project it is indeed important to know if e.g. a temple is greek or > roman, and if I have the information from which period it dates, why > shouldn't I tag it? > ... This is great, I spent some t

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re:new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 12.01.2011 17:59, schrieb j...@jfeldredge.com: Your examples are rather ridiculous. A Viking captain, or King Arthur's sword, would not be logical items to have on a map. Hmmm, I guess Pieren is very much aware of this :-) A building or archaeological site likely would be on a map, and t

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re:new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread Johan Jönsson
Ulf Lamping writes: > > In practice, lot's of sites have *several* different "roots" throughout > the ages. > > A castle may be build in early medieval ages, continuously extended > throughout those ages, largely changed in the baroque era and mostly > rebuild after damages of the second worl

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re:new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/12 Ulf Lamping : > In practice, lot's of sites have *several* different "roots" throughout the > ages. > > A castle may be build in early medieval ages, continuously extended > throughout those ages, largely changed in the baroque era and mostly rebuild > after damages of the second world w

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re:new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 13.01.2011 03:08, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/1/12 Ulf Lamping: In practice, lot's of sites have *several* different "roots" throughout the ages. A castle may be build in early medieval ages, continuously extended throughout those ages, largely changed in the baroque era and mostly re

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re:new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/1/13 Ulf Lamping : > Could you explain both? The hill would be tagged according to what is there (maybe archaeological_site ?) The castle would be tagged as building=castle (and castle subtypes etc., it's in the wiki). As you wrote it is an almost complete rebuild, still I'd tag it probably

Re: [Tagging] Combo Weight Bridges

2011-01-12 Thread James Mast
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:16:46 +0100 > From: dieterdre...@gmail.com > To: tagging@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Tagging] Combo Weight Bridges > > 2011/1/12 Martin Simon : > > These signs are refering to "military load class" ("militärische > > Lastenklasse"), not to maxweight. > > Other th

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Emergency Traffic Signals

2011-01-12 Thread James Mast
I've created a proposal for Emergency Traffic Signals, which are typically found in front of fire stations and highway tunnels at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Emergency_Traffic_Signals -- James ___

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Emergency Traffic Signals

2011-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On 01/12/2011 11:33 PM, James Mast wrote: > I've created a proposal for Emergency Traffic Signals, which are > typically found in front of fire stations and highway tunnels at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Emergency_Traffic_Signals emergency= is already in use for emergenc

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Emergency Traffic Signals

2011-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On 01/12/2011 11:33 PM, James Mast wrote: > I've created a proposal for Emergency Traffic Signals, which are > typically found in front of fire stations and highway tunnels at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Emergency_Traffic_Signals Oh, and lift bridge signals aren't really

Re: [Tagging] Proposed Feature - 2nd RFC - Public Transport

2011-01-12 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Hello Martin On 01/12/2011 12:09 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: thank you for the work on this. I have just 2 small comment on this: "A station is an area dedicated to and particularly designed for passenger access to Public Transport, considerably bigger than a pair of bus stops or tram stops."

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Emergency Traffic Signals

2011-01-12 Thread John Smith
On 13 January 2011 16:10, Paul Johnson wrote: > On 01/12/2011 11:33 PM, James Mast wrote: >> I've created a proposal for Emergency Traffic Signals, which are >> typically found in front of fire stations and highway tunnels at >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Emergency_Traffi

Re: [Tagging] RFC: historic:civilization and historic:period Re:new key civilization

2011-01-12 Thread robert
Why: fortification_type=hill_fort Better is: fortification:type=hill_fort -Robert- Citeren Johan Jönsson : Ulf Lamping writes: In practice, lot's of sites have *several* different "roots" throughout the ages. A castle may be build in early medieval ages, continuously extended throughout