Re: [Tagging] Structure on the end of tunnel to cover sun and avoid bright blindness

2014-05-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-14 7:17 GMT+02:00 Andrew Errington : > You could also refer to the Wiki: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tunnel > > "For covered passages which are open on one side, often found on mountain > roads or ways underneath a building, use covered=* in place of tunnel=*." > > Or tunnel=a

Re: [Tagging] Structure on the end of tunnel to cover sun and avoid bright blindness

2014-05-14 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 14 May 2014 18:33:43 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2014-05-14 7:17 GMT+02:00 Andrew Errington : > > You could also refer to the Wiki: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tunnel > > > > "For covered passages which are open on one side, often found on mountain > > roads or ways underne

Re: [Tagging] Structure on the end of tunnel to cover sun and avoid bright blindness

2014-05-14 Thread Andreas Labres
On 14.05.14 11:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/65229337.jpg PMJI, but this looks much like the end of runway 16/34 of Vienna International Airport, so neither sun nor avalanche protection... ;) /al ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] admin_level on nodes: wiki vs practice

2014-05-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-05-14 4:51 GMT+02:00 Fernando Trebien : > For a long time I believed that the > only practical reason for placing "capital=yes" or "state_capital=yes" > on a node was to help the renderer decide how to render the label; the > renderer could then avoid the trouble of handling relations, even >

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Fernando Trebien
Interesting. So how is capital=* being used in Europe? On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Andreas Goss wrote: > Am 5/13/14 17:40 , schrieb Fernando Trebien: > >> So if you know how it's being done >> in yours, or if you can try figuring it out, please take a minute to >> describe it here briefly. >

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Andreas Goss
Am 5/14/14 17:06 , schrieb Fernando Trebien: Interesting. So how is capital=* being used in Europe? Just running the overpass API with capital* over some countries: Spain: Using capital=8 extensivly (!!!) together with admin_level=8 not really using 4 or 6 though. France, Italy have some ca

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Fernando Trebien
"... Czech Republic taginfo=capital" what do you mean? So it seems that, except for Russia, the most common practice is as described in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/capital#Notes_on_actual_usage . We should probaby vote on this proposal now and make this the default practi

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Andreas Goss
"... Czech Republic taginfo=capital" what do you mean? Ooops. Must have deleted a line there. Bascally they are not using capital= at all apart for some exceptions as you can also see on taginfo. We should probaby vote on this proposal now and make this the default practice. This makes admin

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Fernando Trebien
Following from Aleksandr Dezhin's "Why not use admin_level=* without capital=yes?" in that wiki talk page, why not? Any place=city/town with admin_level=2 is a country capital. Any place=city/town/village with admin_level=4 is a state capital (at least in Brazil). This would remove the need for a c

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Andreas Goss
Am 5/14/14 23:29 , schrieb Fernando Trebien: Any place=city/town/village with admin_level=4 is a state capital (at least in Brazil). What about your capital? According to Wikkipedia that's a capital of the Federal District, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia __ openstre

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Fernando Trebien
Brasília is the only exception which is a capital of two different administrative levels. And both the relations for the federal district [1] and the country [2] correctly express that idea. I know it's not a rule that applies to every country, and precisely because of that it would make even more

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Andreas Goss
Am 5/15/14 01:10 , schrieb Fernando Trebien: Brasília is the only exception which is a capital of two different administrative levels. And both the relations for the federal district [1] and the country [2] correctly express that idea. As long as you only look at admin_level=2 and =4 But even s

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-14 Thread Fernando Trebien
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Andreas Goss wrote: > Exacly, so why tag the level number on the node when we have relations and > can incude the capitals as role:admin_centre? And then there are no > exceptions. Which is how it is usually done here in Germany. I've checked the first 15 cities i