Re: [Tagging] emergency=control_centre

2018-12-10 Thread Javier Sánchez Portero
This also occurs here in Spain with some forest fire services finding more valuable and precise data about forest tracks and it current state in OSM than in any other place. I personally know of some people working in emergency related services that are interested in using OSM and became mappers fo

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Railway tracks on highway

2018-12-10 Thread Nikulainen, Jukka K
Hello all! And thank you all for the good points. Indeed Markus' suggestion of a general embedded_rails=yes tag would be a very good idea and addition! I'll soon update the proposal to reflect this. The reason I added the =subway tag was that I realized that in Helsinki the subway network conn

Re: [Tagging] emergency=control_centre

2018-12-10 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 10. Dec 2018, at 00:33, EthnicFood IsGreat > wrote: > > That is an unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky goal. As long as mappers are free to > use any tag they like, and OSM is a mishmash of tags, how could anyone rely > on it for anything very important? when it is still

Re: [Tagging] leisure=hammock_hangout (was leisure=hammock_hook)

2018-12-10 Thread Sérgio V .
Hi, ok, agreed with "leisure=hammock_hangout", mapped as just a single node for the whole setup, thanks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sérgio - http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/smaprs ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Railway tracks on highway

2018-12-10 Thread Colin Smale
On 2018-12-09 22:30, Markus wrote: > Thank you, Mateusz and Colin, i haven't thought of curve radii and signalling. > > By the way, i deliberately didn't mention the Bordeaux system because > it's uncommon and not a metro (but some kind of tram). Check out Sydney, where they are using APS for so

Re: [Tagging] leisure=hammock_hook

2018-12-10 Thread Sergio Manzi
Hi! I think bridges are particullarly dangerous in this regard and we should definitely stop mapping them. I was joking, my friend, and please accept my apologies if this has touched your sensibility or anybody's else. Have a nice day, Sergio On 2018-12-10 06:57, Marc Gemis wrote: > On Mon,

Re: [Tagging] leisure=hammock_hook

2018-12-10 Thread Tom Pfeifer
On 10.12.2018 00:29, Sérgio V. wrote: Hi, I've found a playground equipment that is made to hang hammocks. If it is playground equipment, you should use the playgound=* key. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:playground tom ___ Tagging mailing

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Railway tracks on highway

2018-12-10 Thread Paul Allen
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 8:13 AM Nikulainen, Jukka K < jukka.nikulai...@helsinki.fi> wrote: In particular the "=abandoned" and "=disused" tags would I think be of > great distinguishing value. For example car drivers could be interested > whether a given section of a highway has possible railway tr

Re: [Tagging] emergency=control_centre

2018-12-10 Thread Paul Allen
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 3:29 AM Daniel Koć wrote: > > Good question. And the answer is - don't underestimate how big OSM > ecosystem is and don't try to limit how is it really used, because you > would be surprised... > Indeed. Sometimes OSM is better than the alternatives for a particular loca

Re: [Tagging] emergency=control_centre

2018-12-10 Thread Sergio Manzi
Just a short note to let you know that in the Italian mailing list (talk-it) we recently had the contribution of an ambulance driver who reported how in his zone he uses OSM maps as the best solution availabale. Cheers! Sergio On 2018-12-10 13:06, Paul Allen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 3

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Mapping disputed boundaries (Version 1.4)

2018-12-10 Thread Johnparis
I have just posted another version 1.4 of my proposal on mapping disputed boundaries. It now includes maritime boundaries, thus minimizing changes from the current map (see the possible renderings page for illustrations). It also includes a changelog: - *Version 1.4* - Using maritime boundar

Re: [Tagging] emergency=control_centre

2018-12-10 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
10 Dec 2018, 00:33 by ethnicfoodisgr...@gmail.com > That is an unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky goal.  As long as mappers are free to > use any tag they like, and OSM is a mishmash of tags, how could anyone rely > on it for anything very important? > In cases where no better data is available. For e