Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Site Relation

2011-02-02 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
you deleted one of the more important parts of this relation IMHO: the label-node which would serve as a suggested label placement. I made some of these relations and I was never sure, which objects I should put into the relation (as for instance the spatial configuration already says that everythi

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-dev] capitals; normalizing true, yes and 1

2011-02-02 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/2 Daniel Sabo : > In this specific case it seems safe to convert capital=true -> capital=yes, > but the other values I'm less sure what they were intending. I checked all of them manually with Josm and Wikipedia. They were all capitals of Philippine Provinces, so capital=yes would have be

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Site Relation

2011-02-02 Thread Josh Doe
See comments inline below: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:29 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > you deleted one of the more important parts of this relation IMHO: the > label-node which would serve as a suggested label placement. Okay, I added this one back, though I'm not fond of it myself. I don't lik

Re: [Tagging] historic tagging, obelisks

2011-02-02 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/1 Johan Jönsson : > M∡rtin Koppenhoefer writes: > No key is really spot-on, well maybe landmark but that is used on seamaps to > mark prominent features on the horizon. IMHO man_made is, it is used for towers and windmills, and I see obelisks somehow in this range of things. > So how to

Re: [Tagging] historic tagging, obelisks

2011-02-02 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/2 Steve Bennett : > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:35 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >> This could be a way, but I am not yet convinced. Churches, temples and >> towers are also monuments, but we don't tag them currently as subtypes >> of monument. Indeed the tag historic=monument is very vagu

Re: [Tagging] historic tagging, obelisks

2011-02-02 Thread Johan Jönsson
I am on the same page as you Martin, we should tag the obelisks as the prominent features they are. man_made seem to be the most neutral key, but landmark is tempting. I suggested: man_made=column + column=obelisk What I meant was man_made="pointy long massive not natural freestanding thing"

Re: [Tagging] historic tagging, obelisks

2011-02-02 Thread john
Obelisks are also fairly common as grave markers, although you would probably tag those differently than obelisks raised to commemorate some event. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] historic tagging, obelisks >From :mailto:joha...@goteborg.cc Date :Wed Feb 02 13:34:28 America/

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Site Relation

2011-02-02 Thread Tobias Knerr
Josh Doe wrote: > The Relation:type=site proposal [1] has been around for over two > years, and I think it is a very useful relation, so I'd like to help > it get approved. > [...] > I've been using this relation for schools and playgrounds, > and I believe it is a needed addition to our tagging ar

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Site Relation

2011-02-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > I can support the proposal if (and only if) it is made clear that site > relations are only to be used where simpler tools aren't sufficient. +1 ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org ht