Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk-be] mailing list good practice (user's and software's)

2013-09-17 Thread ael
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 01:02:23AM +0200, André Pirard wrote: > On 2013-09-16 11:52, Glenn Plas wrote : > > If you want to be serious about this then a new topic should be > > initiated by sending a new mail instead of a reply with a new > > subject. Every decent mailclient out there -usually- doe

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk-be] mailing list good practice (user's and software's)

2013-09-17 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 01:02:23AM +0200, André Pirard wrote: > > list) does not seem to add those headers (in fact, they seem to be > > removed from outgoing mails, I cannot find those fields like below). > You're right, my main gripe is against the mailing list software mailman > itself because i

[Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Daniel wrote: > - Make it easier to edit the wiki. Hi Daniel, I agree - the wiki can be hard to edit if you have never done this before. This is why I requested a visual editor (that is now used by Wikipedia) to be added. Unfortunately this requires an update to the version of MediaWiki that we

[Tagging] Proposal for new tag: landuse=plot

2013-09-17 Thread Lukas Hornby
Hi, For your consideration, please read and comment on my proposal to improve the way that allotments, particularly plots on allotments are tagged. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dplot Thanks, Lukas Hornby (Developer - Grow Bradford) http://www.growbradford.org.uk/

Re: [Tagging] Proposal for new tag: landuse=plot

2013-09-17 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
Hi, * Serge Wroclawski [130918 00:53]: > 1. We do not map land lots in OSM, for reasons that have been > discussed many times. this might be a case of the UK and the US being separated by a common language. We are talking about allotments here, not parcels, which are something completely differe

Re: [Tagging] Proposal for new tag: landuse=plot

2013-09-17 Thread Serge Wroclawski
1. We do not map land lots in OSM, for reasons that have been discussed many times. 2. Even if we did, land lots do not talk about land use, which is what landuse is for. - Serge ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstre

Re: [Tagging] Proposal for new tag: landuse=plot

2013-09-17 Thread John F. Eldredge
Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > Hi, > > * Serge Wroclawski [130918 00:53]: > > 1. We do not map land lots in OSM, for reasons that have been > > discussed many times. > > this might be a case of the UK and the US being separated by a common > language. We are talking about allotments here, not parcels

Re: [Tagging] Proposal for new tag: landuse=plot

2013-09-17 Thread Mike Thompson
I was confused by the term "land lot." Obviously a cultural difference. Perhaps the proposal could give a more detailed description of what a "land lot" is. Mike On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:01 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > Wolfgang Zenker wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> * Serge Wroclawski [130918 00:5

[Tagging] RFC: Japanese address, place revise (Block system address)

2013-09-17 Thread Satoshi IIDA
Hi, list I'm working on expressing Japanese address structure. Also, revising "place" structure. We JP had collected samples, and made a structure from them. Please tell us your comments. (I'm preparing wiki page editing) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApY7X6fw8sqxdDNjY1FBeG00TlRZSF

Re: [Tagging] RFC: Japanese address, place revise (Block system address)

2013-09-17 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Perhaps this is one of those "a picture is worth a thousand words" type situations. I know that the Japanese system for addressing is quite different than the system we think of in the West. Can you perhaps show us what a map of addresses looks like in another map, and then show an OSM example of