[Tagging] about landcover/landcover=grass

2017-04-23 Thread muzirian
I was going through the landuse=grass. And found this there "It is typical that landuse =*grass* is misused and should be changed to landcover =grass

Re: [Tagging] about landcover/landcover=grass

2017-04-23 Thread Warin
On 23-Apr-17 08:25 PM, muzirian wrote: I was going through the landuse=grass. And found this there "It is typical that landuse =*grass* is misused and should be changed to landcover =grass

[Tagging] Language information for name=*

2017-04-23 Thread Lukas Sommer
Hello. There are many applications that use the name=* tag in OSM. You will usually use the name=* tag when you intentionally want to use the name in the default language. (Example: OSMand lets you optionally choose between “local names” or a specific language. And the default style at openstreetm

Re: [Tagging] Language information for name=* (and defaults)

2017-04-23 Thread André Pirard
On 2017-04-23 17:18, Lukas Sommer wrote: > Hello. > > There are many applications that use the name=* tag in OSM. You will > usually use the name=* tag when you intentionally want to use the name > in the default language. (Example: OSMand lets you optionally choose > between “local names” or a spe

Re: [Tagging] Language information for name=*

2017-04-23 Thread Marc Gemis
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote: > cannot reliably determine the language of the name value. It would > also not work for double-language names like “Bruxelles - Brussel” > where none of the name:??=* tags has an identical value. > > I was thinking about a new tag that could gi

Re: [Tagging] Language information for name=*

2017-04-23 Thread Jo
name:iso=fr;nl for Brussels? Polyglot 2017-04-23 20:00 GMT+02:00 Marc Gemis : > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote: > > cannot reliably determine the language of the name value. It would > > also not work for double-language names like “Bruxelles - Brussel” > > where none of th

Re: [Tagging] Landuse and Zoning and Licensing (CC BY SA)

2017-04-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 23. Apr 2017, at 02:38, Greg Troxel wrote: > > CC-BY-SA is incompatible. That's why the great license change was so > painful. even cc-by is incompatible in all versions, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/ODbL_Compatibility cheers, Martin __

Re: [Tagging] Language information for name=* (and defaults)

2017-04-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 23. Apr 2017, at 19:03, André Pirard wrote: > > To do the same, OSM.org should, for example, use nameless tiles (I think that > they exist somewhere) and overlay the text at the client side (on their > computers) according to their wishes. it's not that simple, you wo

Re: [Tagging] about landcover/landcover=grass

2017-04-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 23. Apr 2017, at 12:25, muzirian wrote: > > I was wondering why landcover=grass has a page and directs people to use a > tag for whose key hasnt been well documented or approved. the thing is that voting is almost pointless (almost because it might impress less exper