Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

On 25-Feb-17 06:10 PM, Stephan Knauss wrote: On 25.02.2017 04:28, Dave Swarthout wrote: I'm wondering if it's possible to tag in some meaningful way, the place, usually a node, where a river begins. It seems this would be of interest to people besides myself but I don't think there is currently

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

>This mentions to optionally add a role "spring" for the "spring" node. Not in this case. If the stream started at a spring, that is a place where water comes from the within the earth, that would be fine but the Colville begins at the place where two smaller streams come together to form a larger

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

Taginfo shows 12 instances of a tag waterway:end=yes. It made me think a tagging scheme like the following might work to tag the node: waterway:start=yes name=Colville River On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: > >This mentions to optionally add a role "spring" for the "spring

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 16:25 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > Taginfo shows 12 instances of a tag waterway:end=yes. It made me > think a tagging scheme like the following might work to tag the node: > > waterway:start=yes > name=Colville River The normal term is source, sometimes there is a monument

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

Thanks. Actually, the example you gave uses the tagging Stephan suggested, that is, to tag the first node of a waterway with natural=spring. Apparently, the Thames rises from a spring. I found several other examples using Overpass Turbo and I think the tagging below is good waterway=source name=Co

Re: [Tagging] A place where letters & parcels are sent to be sorted so they can be delivered?

On 23/02/2017 20:01, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: ok, the term might still be in use, but if you're not used to the term it's evoking pictures like this: http://lowres-picturecabinet.com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/29/main/11/440889.jpg I suspect that is still relevant for many hand written en

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

Hi Dave Won't the first node of the named way that's most upstream indicate its start point by default? What advantages will adding a specific 'it starts here' tag bring? Cheers DaveF On 25/02/2017 03:28, Dave Swarthout wrote: I'm wondering if it's possible to tag in some meaningful way, the

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

> Le 25 févr. 2017 à 12:16, Dave F a écrit : > > Hi Dave > > Won't the first node of the named way that's most upstream indicate its start > point by default? > > What advantages will adding a specific 'it starts here' tag bring? > > Cheers > DaveF I agree with Dave here: the first node in t

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

sent from a phone > On 25 Feb 2017, at 12:16, Dave F wrote: > > Won't the first node of the named way that's most upstream indicate its start > point by default? > > What advantages will adding a specific 'it starts here' tag bring? it would be an explicit way to tag the beginning, otherwi

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

Hi, * Martin Koppenhoefer [170225 14:23]: >> On 25 Feb 2017, at 12:16, Dave F wrote: >> Won't the first node of the named way that's most upstream indicate its >> start point by default? >> What advantages will adding a specific 'it starts here' tag bring? > it would be an explicit way to ta

Re: [Tagging] A place where letters & parcels are sent to be sorted so they can be delivered?

On Sat Feb 25 10:49:49 2017 GMT, Dave F wrote: > > This is interesting. From what wikipedia says, the building I was > tagging in Britain may not be classed as a sorting office/mail centre > any more, but a 'delivery office'. (only 28 taginfo of a claimed 1,356 - > maybe a good quarterly projec

Re: [Tagging] A place where letters & parcels are sent to be sorted so they can be delivered?

The sorting facility probably outgrew the building. In Nashville, TN, USA, where I live, the 1930s Main Post Office facility, next to a railway station, is now an art museum. The new Main Post Office facility is at least 20 times larger, and located near the main airport. It includes a small cu

Re: [Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

"it would be an explicit way to tag the beginning, otherwise you can't tell whether the start of a river in OSM is also the start of the actual river, or if there are missing parts in OSM." You make a good point Martin. I hadn't thought of that but that's another reason for using an explicit tag.

Re: [Tagging] A place where letters & parcels are sent to be sorted so they can be delivered?

On 25/02/2017 14:33, Philip Barnes wrote: On Sat Feb 25 10:49:49 2017 GMT, Dave F wrote: This is interesting. From what wikipedia says, the building I was tagging in Britain may not be classed as a sorting office/mail centre any more, but a 'delivery office'. (only 28 taginfo of a claimed 1,356

[Tagging] Mapping freeway stub ends?

What is the best way to map freeway (and other road) stub ends such as this ? It's currently mapped with all of the closed off roadway being tagged with highway=service and access=no, but I've also seen highway=motorway (and -_link) and access=no used as well on ot

Re: [Tagging] Mapping freeway stub ends?

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Albert Pundt wrote: > What is the best way to map freeway (and other road) stub ends such as > this ? It's currently mapped with all > of the closed off roadway being tagged with highway=service and access=no, > but I've also seen

Re: [Tagging] Start of a river

Hi Nick, My intent was to have a starting place, a source, that was tagged in such a way that a Nominatum search would be able to find it. In the example I used, two named streams came together and at that point a new name is used for the resultant waterway. I'm using the accepted standard for geo

Re: [Tagging] Start of a river

Here is a creek that has 2 sources ... and 4 ways all connected but flows are different. Way: Reef Creek (476455207) flows south - source in the north - Drains into Paddys River Way: Reef Creek (476456875) flows north - source in the south ... same source node as the way above! So the above w

Re: [Tagging] Start of a river

here's a major German river which is fed by 2 rivers: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/412876#map=15/50.0864/11.3986 The point where it starts doesn't (yet) have any meaningful tags, just a property disguised as a feature: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/135500355 cheers, Martin sent