Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Jo wrote: > The same is true for cycling and equestrian networks with numbered nodes. > There are a few of those networks in Germany as well. > These are not collections/categories. They are networks of route relations. Well, you could do the same for all McDonald

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Janko Mihelić
I agree with Pieren, and would like to add that relations like these are a problem when you try to download a small bounding box, and one of those nodes gets in the way, and now you have to download all the nodes in that relation. There's no need for that. But there is one advantage with those rel

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Janko Mihelić wrote: > and would like to add that relations like these are a problem when you try > to download a small bounding box, and one of those nodes gets in the way, > and now you have to download all the nodes in that relation. I don't understand this.

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
When the name, operator,etc. has to be moved down to the routes and nodes, we have prefix all those tags with e.g. network. So we get network:name, network:operator on each node and route, right ? Please note the network relations are not used to group all routes and nodes in a country or provinc

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
Just thought of this: since a node can belong to multiple networks (cycling, walking, equestrian), we need a tagging scheme for the network name that takes this into account. So something like : network:rcn:name, network:rwn:name and network:ren:name rcn= regional cycling network rwn= regional wa

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: > So we get network:name, network:operator on each node and route, right ? Since "network" is already in use for "rwn/rcn/etc", its name could be set in something like "network:name" or "network_name". I don't see the point with "network:opera

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: > > Just thought of this: since a node can belong to multiple networks (cycling, > walking, equestrian), we need a tagging scheme for the network name that > takes this into account. > So something like : network:rcn:name, network:rwn:name and ne

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Richard Mann
It's established that we use relations for routes, because the components are related geo-spatially to one another (in a particular order, sometimes having particular roles such as forward/backward). If a way forms part of multiple routes, that is fine - just make it a member of multiple relations.

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
right now the nodes are not placed in the route relation. Although some older relations might contain them. I think you will not find a lot of people in favor of changing the tagging scheme for those networks, just because you don't like the network relation. Anyway, if you want to change it, I pr

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: > right now the nodes are not placed in the route relation. Although some > older relations might contain them. Then you admit it is possible to keep the nodes in the route relation. Where now you have two relations instead of one just to avoid

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
I never said it was not possible to keep the nodes in the route relation. There was no need to do this so far. I don't have 2 relations for each route, I have N+1 for N routes. :-) I just followed what people did before me. I just explain what we are doing, don't shoot the messenger :-) As said

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Am 16.07.2014 05:23, schrieb Marc Gemis: In Belgium and The Netherlands a network-relation is used to group together all nodes and routes of a walking network. relations are NO CATEGORIES in OSM, that's agreed since years! Please delete these relations. BTW: it's not possible to keep such a re

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread John Packer
Kugelmann, It's true we should delete these relations, but not without adding the appropriate tags to it's members (else we would be throwing data away). 2014-07-16 8:20 GMT-03:00 Michael Kugelmann : > Am 16.07.2014 05:23, schrieb Marc Gemis: > > In Belgium and The Netherlands a network-relatio

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Michael Kugelmann
On 16.07.2014 13:31, John Packer wrote: but not without adding the appropriate tags to it's members of course! I never wanted something different. Cheers, Michael. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/li

[Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread John Packer
Hi, I saw on the wiki there was some changes on pages related to religious landuse. It seems there is this tag that was documented only recently (but has around 1500 uses, mostly on Europe), and is called landuse=religious In my opinion, it seems this tag conflicts with amenity=place_of_worship i

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:52 PM, John Packer wrote: > Does this seems correct? It's something else and is related to a "rendering" issue. The place_of_worship area is rendered as a black area on the map and is usually placed on the building polygon. If you want to draw to whole place which can be

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread John Willis
Mixed use facilities run by a single organization, for example, a temple with a private home, a cemetery, a public recycling center, and a pre-school might have the outer area defined by the landuse=religious tag, and the individual buildings/areas tagged as needed. Really, that facility is 1k

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Jo
We have been tagging these networks this way since the beginning of Openstreetmap.org. The network relations combine the nodes and the route relations for a given network of numbered walking/cycling/horsback riding network. equestrian networks get rhn. lhn. nhn and ihn don't exist, as far as I kno

Re: [Tagging] city/settlement importance -- WAS [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

2014-07-16 Thread John Willis
> institutions in charge of determining these figures What about things that are well known in a country? The "one hundred mountains ofJapan" is a common list known to residents, and the "three famous mountains of gunma" are also labeled and known by the prefecture where I am (which means sev

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jo wrote: > We have been tagging these networks this way since the beginning of > Openstreetmap.org. The network relations combine the nodes and the route > relations for a given network of numbered walking/cycling/horsback riding > network. Please, give me an exa

Re: [Tagging] city/settlement importance -- WAS [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

2014-07-16 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 16.07.2014 15:08, John Willis napisał(a): If we trust users to tag businesses, shops, cities, roads, and bridges, why can't we trust them to know their area better than we do? +1 - not everything has to be official-hard-data driven to be useful, meaningful and have sense. In real life

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Jo
You are not tallking about the same thing. We are not talking about a network of PT routes or motorways. We are talking about numbered node NETWORKS, where a network relation is entirely appropriate to describe the network of nodes and the routes connecting them. I can't help it that in the Vecht

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm going to have to side with Pieren against the network relation. Just spitballing, but that would roughly mean one network per county, and an additional 1-8 networks per state, occasionally one network per city, and at least 3 for national in the US alone, bringing nothing to the table that can

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Jo
Again, you are obviously not talking about the same thing. 2014-07-16 16:59 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson : > I'm going to have to side with Pieren against the network relation. Just > spitballing, but that would roughly mean one network per county, and an > additional 1-8 networks per state, occasion

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Jo wrote: > We are talking about numbered node NETWORKS, where a network relation is > entirely appropriate to describe the network of nodes and the routes > connecting them. > Isn't that documented in the wiki as a "route" relation, even though in this case, the

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Jo
Once upon a time, I created a wiki page about the subject: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycle_Node_Network_Tagging This is one of the more complex situations. Most are simpler than that. Jo 2014-07-16 17:23 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson : > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Jo wrote: > >> W

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
a numbered node network consists of 2 things: the nodes, which have numbers and the routes between the nodes. Those routes are signposted between the nodes. Currently there are route relations for the routes between the nodes and network relations with the nodes and the routes. Yes, one could see t

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Jo wrote: >> We are talking about numbered node NETWORKS, where a network relation is >> entirely appropriate to describe the network of nodes and the routes >> connecting them. Numbered node cycle networks a

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 16/lug/2014 um 14:42 schrieb John Willis : > > Next to my house is another temple with a giant cemetery, temple building, > bell tower, private residence, and a public garden. The temple certainly is a > place of worship, the garden is not. Could you expand the idea that the private res

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Pieren wrote: > your case, you don't have a predefined list of (master) routes but > only a list of path "segments". > What is a list of paths other than a route ? I totally agree with you that we could represent it without network relation, but it's just not wo

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread Brad Neuhauser
I don't know what John's example is, but it would make sense to me to include the private residence if it is a place where people who are part of the religious community live, for example a parsonage or a dormitory of a monastery. Regarding gardens, they may have a religious purpose (meditation an

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Frank Little
The cyclenode networks we are talking about are specific, published networks with route signage and node signs and/or information panels. They are not a loose connection of nodes which mappers have decided to gather together in OSM for convenience. You will find them in Belgium (where they were

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Jo
I'm having a look at it. It could of course be converted automatically. Since I have the scripts to walk through the hierarchy already. It would mean that what is nicely where it belongs at the moment, would be moved to tags on the nodes and the route relations, causing a multiplication of tags.

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Jo wrote: > I'm having a look at it. It could of course be converted automatically. > Since I have the scripts to walk through the hierarchy already. Again, I'm not asking to delete them *right now*. I'm checking if the proposal is "fair" and is not breaking the "

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Frank Little
These are practices which a lot of people have been following for a long time. I do not see a real problem which you are trying to solve here. Leave it alone, please. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Pieren Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:46 PM To: Tag discussion, strategy and related

[Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

2014-07-16 Thread Andreas Goss
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/BE-Spelling_shop%3Djewelry I kept it short ;) And I the think the Subject says it all. The use of jewellers could of course also be considered. __ openstreetmap.org/user/AndiG88 wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:AndiG88‎

Re: [Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

2014-07-16 Thread John Packer
I don't think we should change the spelling of an well-established tag (more than 13 000 uses according to taginfo) See the comments about the abrupt change of power=sub_station to power=substation on github[1]. For example: > [..] why bother changing the tag? Should we next have a vote on wheth

Re: [Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

2014-07-16 Thread Dave Swarthout
I agree with John - no need to change the spelling. The differences between British English and American English are troublesome enough already (tyre:tire, centre:center, harbour:harbor, etc.:etc.) — why make another one? On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:12 AM, John Packer wrote: > I don't think we s

Re: [Tagging] Synonymous values in the shop key

2014-07-16 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 06:11 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > wrote: > > There are some values of shop key that seem to be synonymous with other tags > > and I want to confirm whatever it is true. > > Unless mentioned otherwise all mentioned tag

Re: [Tagging] Synonymous values in the shop key

2014-07-16 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Philip Barnes wrote: >> A deli and a delicatessen are not the same thing. I'd say a >> delicatessen is a cuisine of restaurant, and a deli is a type of shop. >> > In British English, delicatessen and deli are the same thing. Certainly > not a cuisine, I would not

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
There is still problem with the "connection" routes. That are routes whose start and endpoint belong to different networks. Right now they are placed in both network relations and given the role 'connection' in the network relation. Duplicating them in order to give them 2 different network names

Re: [Tagging] Synonymous values in the shop key

2014-07-16 Thread Steve Doerr
On 16/07/2014 20:11, Serge Wroclawski wrote: there are no delicatessens in the UK. http://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAction.do?keywords=delicatessen&location=united+kingdom -- Steve --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avas

Re: [Tagging] Synonymous values in the shop key

2014-07-16 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Perfect, so now we have a reason to keep both tags! - Serge On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Steve Doerr wrote: > On 16/07/2014 20:11, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > >> there are no delicatessens in the UK. > > > http://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAction.do?keywords=delicatessen&location=united+kingdom

Re: [Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

2014-07-16 Thread Andreas Goss
I agree with John - no need to change the spelling. The differences between British English and American English are troublesome enough already (tyre:tire, centre:center, harbour:harbor, etc.:etc.) — why make another one? How is this making another one? The differences already exist, no matter

Re: [Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

2014-07-16 Thread Andreas Goss
I don't think we should change the spelling of an well-established tag (more than 13 000 uses according to taginfo) So you think we should keep vending=news_papers? http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/vending=news_papers __ openstreetmap.org/user/AndiG88 wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Use

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Frank Little
Could you please explain why you believe route relations are likely to change, necessitating an update to the network relations? Once a cycle node network has been established, there are few changes (few new routes). Older networks may be updated with a few new nodes and new relations. But (at l

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Marc Gemis
O, did you ever walked along a walking network ? :-) The one in my neighbourhood (Rivierenland) changes almost yearly: farmers that decide that a route can no longer pass over their land, new paths are opened, and sometimes, nodes are just moved a few meters for whatever reason. The network Kempen

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Frank Little
Nodes currently are placed (where relevant) in both cycling and walking networks. If one did not include nodes in route relations (I do that and prefer it; Jo, as he said earlier, does not), or in the network relation, or in both (slight redundancy, but quite useful IMO) then the cycling or hik

Re: [Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

2014-07-16 Thread Frank Little
We don’t disagree that routes can change. But the point is that a route relation connecting two different networks (especially true, I believe, for the cycle node networks) is unlikely to change unless the network nodes change (and that does not happen much). What does happen is that the actual

Re: [Tagging] Synonymous values in the shop key

2014-07-16 Thread Christian Quest
winery / wine Winery: A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. (wikipedia) so... shop=wine is a wine seller, where shop=winery is a winer maker selling his own production

Re: [Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

2014-07-16 Thread John Packer
vending=news_papers seems harder to say because it seems some osm gardeners changed objects that previously had vending=newspapers (for example [1]), so the actual numbers are skewed. [1]: http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=2188351234 2014-07-16 16:41 GMT-03:00 Andreas Goss : > I don't

Re: [Tagging] Synonymous values in the shop key

2014-07-16 Thread Bryan Housel
Oh yeah this comes up sometimes. IMO a wine shop and a winery are not the same thing. The former is something they have at the train station to help with the evening commute, and the latter is the sort of thing people plan their vacations around. Oddly we have the mostly standard `craft=brewer

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread John Willis
Sure - the land is all owned by the temple. The schools are run by the temple. The private residence is the monks residence. He lives next to and operates the temple. In Japan, "next to" usually means attached or less than 1m separating the buildings. As many functions are jammed together. Many

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread Janko Mihelić
I wouldn't give this tag a general name like landuse=religious. People from all over will use this like they see fit, and the tag will soon lose meaning. If Japanese temples usually have grounds around them that have religious connotations, then I would call it something like landuse=japanese_templ

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Jul 16, 2014 1:42 PM, "John Willis" wrote: > Landuse=religious gives us a generic tag, like landuse retail or commercial, without having to be so specific. I'm going to tag my house and garden landuse=atheism -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-16 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Janko Mihelić wrote: > I wouldn't give this tag a general name like landuse=religious. People from > all over will use this like they see fit, and the tag will soon lose > meaning. If Japanese temples usually have grounds around them that have > religious connotati

Re: [Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

2014-07-16 Thread Andreas Goss
vending=news_papers seems harder to say because it seems some osm gardeners changed objects that previously had vending=newspapers (for example [1]), so the actual numbers are skewed. I don't see why that matters. They are in the database. Now the question is should we change them or not. For

Re: [Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

2014-07-16 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-07-16 19:09, Andreas Goss wrote : > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/BE-Spelling_shop%3Djewelry > > > I kept it short ;) And I the think the Subject says it all. The use of > jewellers could of course also be considered. "BE" means Belgium, for those who do like precisi