Re: [Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-25 Thread Tyler Gunn
> I don't think boundary=administrative is appropriate. I'd use > landuse=residential name=* with no other tags for a simple subdivision. This > ends up rendering reasonably: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.4285&lon=-81.4944&zoom=14&layers=M These are civic recognized sub-areas and neig

Re: [Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-25 Thread Josh Doe
The reason I use boundary=administrative is because Burke Centre and the "Neighborhoods" and "Clusters" do have administrative roles. Burke Centre is a homeowners association (HOA) that has what some would consider governmental powers, collecting "assessments" (aka taxes), enforcing standards with

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-dev] Let's put more wikipedia-tags in OSM WAS Re: Some Questions about the Collaboration of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia

2011-02-25 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Samat K Jain wrote: > AFAIK, do *NOT* include underscores in the key name… as is mentioned on the > aforementioned wiki page. Shouldn't matter too much, should it? MediaWiki is pretty ambivalent about underscores and spaces, treating them interchangeably. [[Hong

Re: [Tagging] Let's put more wikipedia-tags in OSM WAS Re: [OSM-dev] Some Questions about the Collaboration of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia

2011-02-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/25 Zhijie Shen : > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:16 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >> display them as an overlay. We cannot (AFAIK) import those coordinates >> into OSM because we believe that they were mainly created from >> Googlemaps hence constitute a derived database [1]. > Yes, I agree

Re: [Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/25 Tyler Gunn : > Example One: > - "place=suburb" node central to neighborhood:   > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1168219909 is the approximative way to place a label and is rendered by mapnik > - Boundary relation with the the "place" node marked as a label: > http://www.ope

Re: [Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-25 Thread Josh Doe
I agree that the boundary relation is the "correct" way to do this. From the wiki, it appears that the 'label' role is accepted. Is it just that Mapnik hasn't gotten around to rendering this yet, or is there some other reason? I really should try and learn about Mapnik... Regards, -Josh On Fri,

Re: [Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-25 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 2/25/2011 7:54 AM, Josh Doe wrote: The reason I use boundary=administrative is because Burke Centre and the "Neighborhoods" and "Clusters" do have administrative roles. Burke Centre is a homeowners association (HOA) that has what some would consider governmental powers, collecting "assessments

Re: [Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-25 Thread Josh Doe
I was basing this off what Germany OSMers apparently do [1]. I'm not too set on it though. -Josh [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#11_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries On Feb 25, 2011 5:15 PM, "Nathan Edgars II" wrote: > On 2/25/2011 7:54 AM, Josh Doe