[Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 05:44 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > .. I hope someone else will stand up to kick off the camp_site=* > proposal for facility levels. > OK Jan, hint taken. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Camp_Site Very early, lot more needs be done. I'm going to b

Re: [Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread johnw
Okay - I have a question - If Jan’s proposal sets the basic category, And this one sets the amenity level, Is is possible to base this around access to the spaces? it seems to set the whole tone of the camp. RV & Caravan / car camping / tent camping? An RV camp usually has spaces and faciliti

Re: [Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread Tod Fitch
> On Mar 30, 2015, at 1:05 AM, johnw wrote: > > Okay - I have a question - If Jan’s proposal sets the basic category, And > this one sets the amenity level, Is is possible to base this around access to > the spaces? it seems to set the whole tone of the camp. > > RV & Caravan / car camping /

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread Tod Fitch
> On Mar 29, 2015, at 10:44 PM, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > > I decided not to include the scout camp, because it then still might be > confused with a place where ordinary campers can stay (like is the case with > all options in the proposal). After the long discussion I have tried to keep > the

Re: [Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-30 10:05 GMT+02:00 johnw : > camp_site:restaurant=yes > camp_site:water=yes > camp_site:space_water=no > campsite:kitchen=yes > camp_site:space_bbq=no > camp_site:space_power=yes > camp_site:attendant=yes > I still believe that this kind of model is not preferable, because these lists te

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-30 4:01 GMT+02:00 johnw : > They are just private facilities, but they should be properly tagged as a > camp site, as people drive long distances to take scouts there, so they > should be searchable and routable. IMHO scout camps, while they merit to be mapped in certain cases (recurrin

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - power_supply:schedule

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-29 13:28 GMT+02:00 Jan van Bekkum : > I believe it is good to have a single list with all approved tags. There is one here: http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Approved_features Cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://l

Re: [Tagging] RFC - obligatory usage - bicycle=obligatory

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-29 18:55 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson : > Routing engines are already capable of handling the situation quite > handily if the way that bicycles are not allowed on is bicycle=no or > bicycle=destination. > it's not about ways where bicycles are not allowed on, it is about ways with other ways

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread johnw
That seems very wrong, as we tag parking lots with access=private and they are still mapped and rendered. They are a camp site visited by hundreds, if not thousands of people, just a private one. A camp I worked at handled 1500 scouts in 6 weeks during the season! All of them had to be drive

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread John Willis
The 4 scout camps I have been to have tents set up in groups in clearings under trees for visiting campers. The only permanent building is the dining hall. That's what burned down at hual-cu-cuish. maybe a new camp type is needed for these others- dormitory School camps I have been to (Califor

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-30 12:53 GMT+02:00 johnw : > That seems very wrong, as we tag parking lots with access=private and they > are still mapped and rendered. > > They are a camp site visited by hundreds, if not thousands of people, just > a private one. > what about military camps? Indigenous camps / nomad c

Re: [Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread John Willis
> On Mar 30, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > Some things might make sense to be seen as attributes on the camp_site, e.g. > whether there is power available, while others like the presence of a > restaurant or a shop should be better mapped as objects on their own. I gues

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread John Willis
People don't drive to camp David in a minivan with a tent and some marshmallows, go hiking in groups and tell stories around a camp fire. None of the other camps you listed were recreation camps. Boy Scout camps are. Seems straight forward to me. Javbw > On Mar 30, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Mart

[Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
I suggest to tag volcanos on ways rather than nodes, if possible. Currently the wiki states that only nodes should be used, and while I agree that nodes might be a preliminary way of mapping, I think that typically volcanos are bigger than just a point, and would merit an area to be mapped. http:/

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-30 13:20 GMT+02:00 John Willis : > Boy Scout camps are. > > Seems straight forward to me. > well, you can't drive in a minivan there, set up your tent and sit around their camp fire to tell them a story, you only could if you were a boy scout of their group. Cheers, Martin

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread John Willis
I can't walk into a factory and start running their drop forge either, but it's still a factory... Known by the residents of the city... Travelled to by hundreds of citizens of the city or region... Javbw > On Mar 30, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > > 2015-03-30 13:20 G

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
In contrast to a peak, which is a point by definition, a volcano is often characterised by its crater, thus a polygon makes perfect sense. I see people drawing perfectly round chimneys with one node per brick, thus a volcano certainly deserves its area. I would have recommended to sync this acti

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Richard Z.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 01:26:35PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Just discovered, this was changed only one year ago by user geozeisig, > before there was a recommendation for areas as well: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Anatural%3Dvolcano&diff=996213&oldid=995784 n

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Richard Z.
Hi, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:natural%3Dlava has some thoughts how to map lava fields and calderas - I think those should be finalized and documented. Cut & paste Lava fields natural=bare_rock ("rock" being used in the broad sense of a consolidated (solid) or unconsoli

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-30 15:25 GMT+02:00 Richard Z. : > no it was not. As pointed out in wiki it was part of the original > proposal, Geozeisig only corrected the infobox to reflect what > the text says. > thank you for pointing this out, I wasn't aware of it. Still, 5% of all volcanos are mapped on ways.

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Janko Mihelić
In a broader sense, volcano is a mountain that appeared after a volcano blew up. The problem is, we don't yet have a way of mapping mountains. There was a suggestion to map a mountain by tagging mountain=xyz on all entities that define a mountain, that is peaks, ridges, mountain passes and such. Ma

[Tagging] Micro- and macromapping with area=*

2015-03-30 Thread Daniel Koć
Lately I was trying to rethink our general tagging schemes and came up with the impression that areas half-designed part of OSM tagging system. IMO we have 2 problems with it: small one in microscale and a big one in macroscale, but most probably we can deal with them separately. *** In micr

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread fly
Am 30.03.2015 um 16:58 schrieb Janko Mihelić: > In a broader sense, volcano is a mountain that appeared after a volcano > blew up. The problem is, we don't yet have a way of mapping mountains. > There was a suggestion to map a mountain by tagging mountain=xyz on all > entities that define a mountai

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-30 17:09 GMT+02:00 fly : > volcano and peak are both mountains and we do not have an area tagging > system for fuzzy areas. > with the not so subtle difference that mountains do have a peak, while volcanos don't, they typically have a "hole". Cheers, Martin _

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread Dave Swarthout
A scout camp is a camp_site. It's just not accessible by the general public. Tag with access=private. End of story. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:48 PM, John Willis wrote: > I can't walk into a factory and start running their drop forge either, but > it's still a factory... Known by the residents of

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-03-30 17:31 GMT+02:00 Dave Swarthout : > A scout camp is a camp_site. It's just not accessible by the general > public. Tag with access=private. End of story. are scouts "tourists"? With your same argument you could say: "a toilet is a toilet", but we just rejected the idea that every priv

Re: [Tagging] Micro- and macromapping with area=*

2015-03-30 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
Mapping street areas should not use [highway=*; area=yes] - [area:highway=*] is much better. highway=pedestrian, highway=footway for squares are special cases as square may and typically is traversed using any route. Also some [highway=service; area=yes] fit (some parkings and similar places) as i

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
-1 on this. At a first level approximation, a volcano is a peak. Even on the caldera rim there's still a high point, and that's the peak. If you want to map the caldera create a key for that. If you want to map the volcano extent, good luck. Where's the base of a mountain? What defines the edge

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting camp_type=*

2015-03-30 Thread Jan van Bekkum
After an intensive discussion (see [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings) that has resulted in substantial modification of the content and scope of the original proposal please cast your votes for the reworked version. It has been kept as lean and focussed as possible. Propo

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - power_supply:schedule

2015-03-30 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2015-03-29 13:28 GMT+02:00 Jan van Bekkum : > >> I believe it is good to have a single list with all approved tags. > > > There is one here: http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Approved_features > Again, the word "approved" is misleading here

Re: [Tagging] Micro- and macromapping with area=*

2015-03-30 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 30.03.2015 18:07, Mateusz Konieczny napisał(a): Mapping street areas should not use [highway=*; area=yes] - [area:highway=*] is much better. That's exactly what was proposed regarding street areas: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_area#Tagging but I wouldn't

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-30 Thread John Willis
Yes, scouts are tourists, espcially since scout groups are usually just connected together through a uniform and a book - the local groups are operated by disparate charity groups, and even local groups have little knowledge of each other. The camp I worked at in central California is operated

Re: [Tagging] Micro- and macromapping with area=*

2015-03-30 Thread fly
Am 30.03.2015 um 17:02 schrieb Daniel Koć: In general area=yes/no is broken. Usually, there should not be a problem to get the information from the object (type). With some tags which are valid for closed (area) and unclosed ways we have problems and the best we can do, is to define one solution

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
It's about time that renderers started supporting semicolon-delimited lists. Splitting apart a delimited string is a trivial programming task. I know, having worked as a programmer for the last 29 years. On March 28, 2015 11:09:10 PM CDT, Dave Swarthout wrote: > Just a note about using semic

Re: [Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 17:05 +0900, johnw wrote: > camp_site:restaurant=yes > camp_site:water=yes > camp_site:space_water=no > campsite:kitchen=yes > camp_site:space_bbq=no John, this model would work fine if the end user was using a interactive tool where he could say "show me all the camps that c

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-30 Thread fly
Am 30.03.2015 um 23:35 schrieb John F. Eldredge: > It's about time that renderers started supporting semicolon-delimited lists. > Splitting apart a delimited string is a trivial programming task. I know, > having worked as a programmer for the last 29 years. +1 cu fly

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-30 Thread fly
Am 29.03.2015 um 11:27 schrieb Bryce Nesbitt: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What if you do know details .. but not the exact location? Still place a >> node somewheres? >> > > How about at that point you go visit the site, and map based on that visit

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread John Willis
Volcanos have a life cycle, and while some of them are iconic cones,(Fuji), and some are shields which are very flat (Vesuvius), most are not. There are calderas and collapsed old volcanoes and partially destroyed but still active volcanoes (mt st Helens) Japan has hundreds of active and and o

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
>John Willis >There is no way to say "this is a minor hill". - I'm not talking about mountaineering definitions and sub-peak prominence, but just that >rendering order and priority in OSM/carto has no method for saying "this is a tiny but named hill 25m tall in a city park" and "this is an internat

Re: [Tagging] Micro- and macromapping with area=*

2015-03-30 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 30.03.2015 22:24, fly napisał(a): In general area=yes/no is broken. Usually, there should not be a problem to get the information from the object (type). You seem to be talking about interpreting data already in the database ("forest is an area" - of course! =} ), while I'm talking ab

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread John Willis
I love the idea. I suggested it. -carto hated it. They worry so much about vandalism and "verifiability" - but landmark and "importance" level of local things can only be mapped and verified by local mappers - mappers are trusted to map so many things, this should be one of them. We have ho

Re: [Tagging] volcanic features proposal

2015-03-30 Thread Richard Z.
I have lifted the scheme originally proposed by Mike to a proposal page, did not have time for details yet. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Volcanic_features Richard ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting camp_type=*

2015-03-30 Thread Dave Swarthout
Good work Jan. This is something I can use until the extra work is done to make classifications by amenity level easier. One small thing in terms of language usage. It isn't correct to say campgrounds are "opportunistic activities". Campgrounds are a thing, a noun, while an activity is an action.

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-30 Thread Dave Swarthout
It's about time that renderers started supporting semicolon-delimited lists. Splitting apart a delimited string is a trivial programming task. I know, having worked as a programmer for the last 29 years. +1 Speaking as an ex-programmer, I completely agree PHP, and other languages, actually have

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 31.03.2015 0:47, John Willis napisał(a): They worry so much about vandalism and "verifiability" - but landmark and "importance" level of local things can only be mapped and verified by local mappers - mappers are trusted to map so many things, this should be one of them. I don't know th

[Tagging] Status 'Draft' ... vs status 'Proposed'?

2015-03-30 Thread Warin
There have been some comments on people making comments on the voting stage of a proposal. I think this comes about because of the large number of proposals with the status 'proposed'. Makes it impossible to see which proposals are actively being promoted towards the voting stage in the short t

Re: [Tagging] recommend tagging of volcanos as ways rather than nodes

2015-03-30 Thread Dave Swarthout
At a first level approximation, a volcano is a peak. Even on the caldera rim there's still a high point, and that's the peak. If you want to map the caldera create a key for that. If you want to map the volcano extent, good luck. Where's the base of a mountain? What defines the edge of a volcano

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
I asked what the OSMAnd developers prefer but have not yet had an answer. On their forum by the way, works well ! David On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 07:11 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > It's about time that renderers started supporting semicolon-delimited > lists. Splitting apart a delimited string is

Re: [Tagging] Status 'Draft' ... vs status 'Proposed'?

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 12:22 +1100, Warin wrote: > There have been some comments on people making comments on the voting > stage of a proposal. I think this comes about because of the large > number of proposals with the status 'proposed'. Indeed. And you suggest a viable solution but I wonder i

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-30 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:51 PM, fly wrote: > Am 30.03.2015 um 23:35 schrieb John F. Eldredge: > > It's about time that renderers started supporting semicolon-delimited > lists. Splitting apart a delimited string is a trivial programming task. I > know, having worked as a programmer for the last

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting camp_type=*

2015-03-30 Thread Jan van Bekkum
Hi Dave, Thanks for the comment. I have made the change. Regards, Jan On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:04 AM Dave Swarthout wrote: > Good work Jan. This is something I can use until the extra work is done to > make classifications by amenity level easier. > > One small thing in terms of language usa

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-30 Thread Dave Swarthout
amenity=toilets;drinking_water fee=no opening_hours=24/7 toilets:position=seated;urinal Yes, good information. There is much ambiguity in that example if the tagging is not done carefully and properly. On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:51 PM, fly

Re: [Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
I have fleshed out the camp_site proposal page a bit. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Camp_Site And added some text in the discussion page identifying the three decisions that need to be made before the proposal proceeds - 1 -Is this the right model ? By model, I mean the id

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - power_supply:schedule

2015-03-30 Thread François Lacombe
Hi all, +1 with Bryce and "published" instead of "approved" +1 with Ole regarding power features Cheers François Le 30 mars 2015 19:06, "Bryce Nesbitt" a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 2015-03-29 13:28 GMT+02:00 Jan van