Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

Accuracy is indeed a problem. An early OSM update I made was moving a borderline by 250m and put a devotion site from an arrondissement to another. Since then many corrections of more that 5 m, mainly due to user being unaware of Bing's offset (at close zoom of co

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

Oops, I forgot to finish a phrase... I just checked a place where I had spotted a Bing offset before and that disappeared.  National aerial photos 2009 and 2012 are offset by 2.8m. Bing is almost in the middle. But that's because of a perspective effect. The natio

Re: [Tagging] Distinction between amenity=restaurant and fast_food

While all restaurants pre-cook some food, fast food restaurants often cook the majority of food prior to a customer order. But there's just simply no firm line between restaurant and fast food. But there are lots of attributes: does it serve food? does it serve alcohol? how fast is food available

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

Friedrich Volkmann wrote on 2014-12-23 23:59: There are no GPS traces for pipeline markes. There are traces for roads and paths only. It was not clear if the OP indeed wants to map pipelines, or was just quoting the pipeline expert for his opinion about surveying methods. And if you walk/drive

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 63, Issue 72

Some weeks ago, I have written something on reliable mapping, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ulamm/Mappers,_evaluators_and_feedback For a special feature, I'd also added it to an existing article, but it was reverted, see "Attention" in the upper table of https://wiki.openstreetma

[Tagging] correct access tagging for tourist attraction

we were using the old skobbler app to get us to the biltmore estate in Ashville, NC today, and an issue came up with access tagging. specifically, there are multiple roads that can access biltmore but only one official entrance. the current tagging in OSM labels all the roads as private, with the

Re: [Tagging] Distinction between amenity=restaurant and fast_food

> does it serve food? does it serve alcohol? how fast is food available after ordering? is it table service with waiters? is it counter service with tables? is takeout available? is there drive thru takeout? is there a restroom amenity? is there a playground amenity? This schema is quite meaningfu

Re: [Tagging] correct access tagging for tourist attraction

perhaps use the =destination tag instead of =private on the road you are supposed to use. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access I think that unless you are an invited guest and have a drawn map and permission from the owner, a private pl