Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread SomeoneElse
On 21/07/2014 00:51, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: ... but looking into WP showed that in Britain the meaning "refers to the town or city residence of a member of the nobility or gentry , as opposed to their country

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 21/lug/2014 um 02:13 schrieb Steve Doerr : > > If you're drawing buildings, whether a house is terraced or not should be > apparent from the geometry without any special tagging. -1, of course you can see that there are houses attached to another, but you can't tell for sure whether tho

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Volker Schmidt
Wikipedia is rather precise on the different meanings - see my earlier post with links. Volker On 21 July 2014 10:42, SomeoneElse wrote: > On 21/07/2014 00:51, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > ... but looking into WP showed that in Britain the meaning "refers to > the town or city residenc

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread SomeoneElse
On 21/07/2014 10:29, Volker Schmidt wrote: Wikipedia is rather precise on the different meanings - see my earlier post with links. Volker Sure - I understand that you were correctly flagging the ambiguity associated with the term, but what I was saying was that one of those three definition

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Volker Schmidt
Yes, I know - I know that when you buy a "townhouse" in the UK it means it's terraced. My only point was that Wikipedia is a precise source of reference for this discussion (at least the English version - it's a bit problematic with the translations) On 21 July 2014 11:47, SomeoneElse wrote:

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Aah, sounds like the cycle_network proponents may have gotten overzealous, then; good catch. Could someone check history and contact mappers? On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > > > On 20/07/14 18:29, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Minh Nguyen > > mai

Re: [Tagging] Center Turn Lane Tagging?

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm at a loss to remember where I saw this, though, it looked like your standard American both-way left turn lane, though it had an additional token set of orange dots down the middle. Most drivers would cross over the nearest lane to the lane adjacent to oncoming traffic to be able to see their t

Re: [Tagging] Townhouse

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-07-21 12:39 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt : > Yes, I know - I know that when you buy a "townhouse" in the UK it means > it's terraced. +1, I'd use the established tag "terraced_house" and not just "house" neither "townhouse". Evventually we could have a subtag to subclass terraced houses, e.

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-07-20 15:29 GMT+02:00 John Willis : > So what about the rest - the landuse for the area - is my basic > understanding remiss? Am I misinterpreting a basic tenent of OSM with my > statement on area defined by landuse and buildings and amenities over it? > > Even if you disagree on landuse=reli

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Vending Machines: Drink & Food

2014-07-21 Thread Andreas Goss
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vending-Dinks%26Food After thinking a bit about how to handle food and drink vending machines I thought a good compromise between only having vending=food/drinks + food:/drink: or vending=tomatoes/asparagus/milk/apples... would be to have so

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Vending Machines: Drink & Food

2014-07-21 Thread SomeoneElse
On 21/07/2014 18:49, Andreas Goss wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vending-Dinks%26Food (offlist) You might want to fix the typo in the page name... Cheers, Andy ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https:

Re: [Tagging] Feature proposal - Power transmission refinement - RFC 2

2014-07-21 Thread François Lacombe
Hi Gentlemen, Well, I hope you'll be fully satisfied with the last edition of the power transmission proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_transmission_refinement#overhead_power.3Dline Instead of introducing a brand new line:type key, I've extended the definition of

[Tagging] highway=speed_camera equivalent for non-speed enforcement types

2014-07-21 Thread Ronnie Soak
I've mapped some traffic light enforcement cameras lately and stumbled across the somehow missfitting tag highway=speed_camera. It was obvioisly invented for cameras enforcing only speed limits. Now the actual enforcement can be quite flexibly tagged by the enforcement relation and technically, t

Re: [Tagging] highway=speed_camera equivalent for non-speed enforcement types

2014-07-21 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Ronnie, On 22. Juli 2014 07:35:07 MESZ, Ronnie Soak wrote: > I've mapped some traffic light enforcement cameras lately and > stumbled across the somehow missfitting tag highway=speed_camera. > > It was obvioisly invented for cameras enforcing only speed limits. > > Now the actual enforcemen