Re: [Tagging] Sluice gate vs valve (was Re: Reviewing wiki pages - Tag:landcover=greenery, Tag:waterway=sluice gate, Tag:landcover=water, Tag:landcover=shrubs, Tag:landcover=sand, Tag:waterway=slRevie

2019-07-18 Thread François Lacombe
Hi Marc, Le jeu. 18 juil. 2019 à 07:48, Marc Gemis a écrit : > Is the second picture a valve ? > https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-sluice-gate.htm This page calls it > sluice gate. I'm not familiar with the terminology, so perhaps experts > can enlighten me. > Functionally a valve regulates t

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Tag:waterway=tidal_channel

2019-07-18 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
14 people have voted so far on waterway=tidal_channel - all in favor Voting continues until the 22nd of July, 2019 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:waterway%3Dtidal_channel#Voting On 7/10/19, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 1:31 PM Joseph Eisenberg > >

[Tagging] Once more: the village_green - increase in misuse.

2019-07-18 Thread Marc Zoutendijk via Tagging
In 2017 [1] I posted here about the use of the landuse=village_green tagging. Mainly because it was used against it's definition, which is: "A village green is a distinctive part of a village centre. It's an area of common land (usually grass but may also be a lake), in the centre of a village (

Re: [Tagging] Once more: the village_green - increase in misuse.

2019-07-18 Thread marc marc
The only way to have a chance to get away with it is to depreciate this tag (at least outside uk but maybe also in uk) in favor of a tag by meaning instead of having a multi-meaning tag - green area: maybe landcover=greenery could be appropriate, but if there is no rendering on osm-carto, let's not

Re: [Tagging] Once more: the village_green - increase in misuse.

2019-07-18 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:07 AM marc marc wrote: > > The only way to have a chance to get away with it is to depreciate > this tag (at least outside uk but maybe also in uk) in favor of a tag > by meaning instead of having a multi-meaning tag landuse=grass is horrible, since it describes a landc

Re: [Tagging] Once more: the village_green - increase in misuse.

2019-07-18 Thread Peter Elderson
In Nederland there are many of village_green like areas, used for community events, but without a formal status. I would support tagging these as village_green. Larger cities tend to have several of these areas, often because villages have been incorporated but the central area has retained its fun

Re: [Tagging] Once more: the village_green - increase in misuse.

2019-07-18 Thread Warin
 As Kevin Kenny says. The key 'landuse' is big misused for land covers. And this predominately is because of the tag landuse=grass. While this exists OSM can expect the key 'landuse' to be used (misused) for land covers of all descriptions. If the key 'landuse' is only used for the human use

Re: [Tagging] Once more: the village_green - increase in misuse.

2019-07-18 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
19 Jul 2019, 00:41 by 61sundow...@gmail.com: > The key 'landuse' is big misused for land covers. > For various reasons meaning of word used as key is not strictly limiting values used with it. landuse=grass, amenity=prison, highway=path, natural=water for man made reservoirs, natural=wood f

Re: [Tagging] Once more: the village_green - increase in misuse.

2019-07-18 Thread Peter Elderson
Hm.. village_common still says village, where often these areas are no longer in a village. Vr gr Peter Elderson Op vr 19 jul. 2019 om 00:42 schreef Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > As Kevin Kenny says. > > The key 'landuse' is big misused for land covers. > > And this predominately is because