Re: [Tagging] how to map soft story/soft storey buildings properly?

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:19 PM Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > It is at least debatable, I know there are some people who love long > structured tags, although this idea is in a minority in Osm tagging, most > people do not use tags like this. It doesn’t seem necessary in this case to > use a struc

Re: [Tagging] how to map soft story/soft storey buildings properly?

> On Dec 17, 2018, at 2:17 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > > The bigger problem could be verifiability. OSM is about crowd sourced geodata > while this property seems to require expert capabilities and additional > information you cannot get non-destructively on the ground? > For what

Re: [Tagging] Benefits of namespaces

I couldn't be happier to have the "Benefits of namespaces" discussion happening right now on this ML. I am about to finalize a tagging proposal for a new sub-tag. I am wondering about the pros and cons of the traditional "OSM tag chain" (foo=bar + bar=baz) versus "Laymans namespacing" (foo=bar + b

Re: [Tagging] Highway=*_link roads at Y-junctions and roundabouts?

Agreed, a short Y section before a roundabout because there is a small bit of painted or physical separation doesn't mean they are _link roads - it's still the same through road. The wiki says "The _link tags are used to identify ... 'channelised' (physically separated) at-grade turning lanes

Re: [Tagging] Highway=*_link roads at Y-junctions and roundabouts?

Thank you for the clarification. (Tagging the Y-junctions and traffic circle entrances results in a small rendering issue with the current Openstreetmap-carto style, but if is a tagging mistake we don’t need to change anything.) On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 7:52 AM Michael Booth wrote: > Agreed, a sh

Re: [Tagging] Benefits of namespaces

Thank-you Claudius, I've posted an answer in the forum, but I'm afraid it is awaiting for moderation (I'm new to the forum...). Cheers, Sergio On 2018-12-18 22:20, Claudius Henrichs wrote: > I couldn't be happier to have the "Benefits of namespaces" discussion > happening right now on this M

Re: [Tagging] Benefits of namespaces

Visible now! :-) On 2018-12-19 03:30, Sergio Manzi wrote: > > Thank-you Claudius, > > I've posted an answer in the forum, but I'm afraid it is awaiting for > moderation (I'm new to the forum...). > > Cheers, > > Sergio > > > On 2018-12-18 22:20, Claudius Henrichs wrote: >> I couldn't be happier t