Re: [Tagging] tagging sport=shotput or sport=shot_put?

2016-03-25 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Warin wrote on 2016/03/25 05:11: Hi, Both sport=shotput and sport=shot_put exist in the data base with about the same numbers .. about 50 each. I thing I prefer the sport=shot_put as that reflects wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_put I prefer to tag all those as sport=athletics, a

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 18 March 2016 at 22:15, Michael Reichert wrote: > I agree that an importance tag for mountains is not a suitable concept > but a importance tag for train stations (or airports) is surveyable and > suitable for OSM. Just take the timetable or go out and stay one day on > the platforms, count an

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 20 March 2016 at 00:12, Alexander Matheisen wrote: > If you have a look at the highway=* tagging: This scheme is subjective, > but there is no alternative. Poppycock. > As the person who created that station importance draft, I will focus > on stations, but for other features like mountain p

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 21 March 2016 at 22:26, Daniel Koć wrote: > Using Wikidata as a base for peaks scoring is worse than basing it on > population, because it's less universal and relies on one particular > website, but I don't reject it at this moment. Actually, counting the links to other Wikimedia sites from

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Alexander Matheisen
Am Freitag, den 25.03.2016, 11:26 + schrieb Andy Mabbett: > On 20 March 2016 at 00:12, Alexander Matheisen > wrote: > > > If you have a look at the highway=* tagging: This scheme is > > subjective, > > but there is no alternative. > > Poppycock. Why? > > As the person who created that stat

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Alexander Matheisen
Am Freitag, den 25.03.2016, 11:20 + schrieb Andy Mabbett: > On 18 March 2016 at 22:15, Michael Reichert wrote: > > > I agree that an importance tag for mountains is not a suitable > > concept > > but a importance tag for train stations (or airports) is surveyable > > and > > suitable for OSM.

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Alexander Matheisen
Am Montag, den 21.03.2016, 23:26 +0100 schrieb Daniel Koć: > Interesting idea worth testing, IMO. However I suspect in practice > there > will be lot of problems to make it really fly. > > Let's look at the similar simple idea (with scoring based on city > type > and population) used to render c

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 March 2016 at 12:19, Alexander Matheisen wrote: > Am Freitag, den 25.03.2016, 11:26 + schrieb Andy Mabbett: >> On 20 March 2016 at 00:12, Alexander Matheisen >> wrote: >> >> > If you have a look at the highway=* tagging: This scheme is >> > subjective, >> > but there is no alternative.

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Alexander Matheisen
Am Freitag, den 25.03.2016, 16:36 + schrieb Andy Mabbett: > On 25 March 2016 at 12:19, Alexander Matheisen > wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 25.03.2016, 11:26 + schrieb Andy Mabbett: > > > On 20 March 2016 at 00:12, Alexander Matheisen > > > wrote: > > > > > > > If you have a look at the high

Re: [Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

2016-03-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 25.03.2016 um 13:29 schrieb Alexander Matheisen > : > > And the German version of this article (you can translate it with > Google Translator) says that a secondary road often corresponds to a > certrain legal designation, but it does not have to. although this is a pe

Re: [Tagging] tagging sport=shotput or sport=shot_put?

2016-03-25 Thread Warin
On 25/03/2016 9:16 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Warin wrote on 2016/03/25 05:11: Hi, Both sport=shotput and sport=shot_put exist in the data base with about the same numbers .. about 50 each. I thing I prefer the sport=shot_put as that reflects wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_put I p

[Tagging] Subject: Feature Proposal - RFC - highway=social_path

2016-03-25 Thread Alan McConchie
Dear tagging list, I’d like to solicit comments on the following proposal, to create a new tag called "highway=social_path" Wiki page is here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Social_path Definition from the wiki page: We propose the "social_path" value to mark so-called

Re: [Tagging] Subject: Feature Proposal - RFC - highway=social_path

2016-03-25 Thread Greg Troxel
Alan McConchie writes: > Some commenters have suggested using the existing highway=path tag, > with supplemental tags such as access=no or informal=yes, or a new > supplemental tag path=social_trail, or adding an operator > tag. However, these supplemental tags are too easily ignored by data > c

Re: [Tagging] tagging sport=shotput or sport=shot_put?

2016-03-25 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Warin wrote on 2016/03/25 23:07: On 25/03/2016 9:16 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Warin wrote on 2016/03/25 05:11: I thing I prefer the sport=shot_put as that reflects wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_put I prefer to tag all those as sport=athletics, as well as the tracks for long-jump

Re: [Tagging] Subject: Feature Proposal - RFC - highway=social_path

2016-03-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 25.03.2016 um 23:54 schrieb Alan McConchie : > > We propose the "social_path" value to mark so-called social trails (also > known as bootleg trails or desire lines): game trails, detours, or short-cuts > that have seen sufficient pedestrian use that they appear to be hi

Re: [Tagging] Subject: Feature Proposal - RFC - highway=social_path

2016-03-25 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:54:31 -0700 Alan McConchie wrote: > Note: As an experiment, we tagged 17 features in Marin County, > California, as highway=social_path, but these have subsequently been > re-tagged as highway=path, access=no Well, highway=path, access=no is covering case of paths illegal