On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:41 AM, SomeoneElse > The stats are crocked
due to seav (who appears to be running a bot without
> checking with local mappers first) changing them. The last wiki edits were
> by seav editing the page to match the version that they favoured. The
> "tagging@" discussion th
On 29/06/2011 13:22, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
I don't run any bots. I used JXAPI and JOSM.
That's irrelevant; you're still changing data across the planet.
Data consumers still need to know if the data is changing beneath their
feet, though.
Your last post on the tagging list:
http://www.
On 6/29/2011 8:46 AM, SomeoneElse wrote:
That's irrelevant; you're still changing data across the planet.
I don't see these edits as out of line or unusual. It's not so
different from the dozens of other projects to create more unified tags
so that data consumers have a chance of using th
On 29/06/2011 14:19, Mike N wrote:
I don't see these edits as out of line or unusual. It's not so
different from the dozens of other projects to create more unified
tags so that data consumers have a chance of using the right tag.
I suspect the "tags" you're talking about in other projects
It might be useful to know how many uses of the two variants were present
before Eugene (seav) began changing them. My impression is that both were
being used commonly, and thus data consumers had to accept both spellings,
and so this change isn't such a big deal. Of course it would have been
appro
On 6/29/2011 9:31 AM, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
On 29/06/2011 14:19, Mike N wrote:
I don't see these edits as out of line or unusual. It's not so
different from the dozens of other projects to create more unified
tags so that data consumers have a chance of using the right tag.
I suspect the "ta
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Josh Doe wrote:
I have no ability to say if "drive-through" or "drive_through" or
"drive-thru" is the best one but I always thank people trying to keep
tagging consistent in the database. For instance, we have currently 879
different 'highway' values in taginfo.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Dave F. wrote:
> Potlatch2 tags drive-through. The wiki & some users who changed this tag
> think it's drive_through.
>
> Not that it makes any odds to me which it is, but it might save time for
> others who go around changing one to the other.
>
> Which should it
You want silly retaggings?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6380219
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On 29/06/2011 14:57, Anthony wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Dave F. wrote:
Potlatch2 tags drive-through. The wiki& some users who changed this tag
think it's drive_through.
Not that it makes any odds to me which it is, but it might save time for
others who go around changing one to t
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Dave F. wrote:
> My main irritation about things like this is not if it's X or Y, but that we
> can't decide whether it's X or Y. It makes the database a jumbled mess that
> on at least one occasion has caused a potential user of the info to walked
> away after sp
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 20:51 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> I would not be surprised if there are also some occurrences of
> "drive-thru" or "drive_thru". American business people seem to prefer
> to write "thru" rather than "through", so much so that some members of
> the public probably are
2011/6/29 David Murn :
> Well, technically if were mapping whats on the ground, a lot of
> restaurant signs say "Drive thru". The wiki has a redirect from
> drive_thru to drive_through, with 4 occurances of 'drive thru' on the
> page, but no explanation about why the tag uses the British English
>
On 6/29/2011 12:40 AM, David Murn wrote:
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 20:51 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote:
I would not be surprised if there are also some occurrences of
"drive-thru" or "drive_thru". American business people seem to prefer
to write "thru" rather than "through", so much so that so
On 29/06/2011 05:40, David Murn wrote:
While the latter
is the more traditional spelling, that doesnt mean that anyone should go
around changing 'Dunkin Donuts' to 'Dunkin Doughnuts', if its tagged the
first way.. the same way I believe you shouldnt be changing the 'Drive
thru' signed areas to 'D
All I know is that "service=drive-through" was rendered already in Mapnik while
"service=drive_through" is not. Look here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.525952&lon=-80.006203&zoom=18&layers=M I
had originally tagged the "Drive Thru's" for Taco Bell and Arby's here as
"service=drive-thro
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