Re: [Tagging] Revisiting proposal/voting scheme

2015-03-18 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 22:21 +, Dan S wrote: > > So here's how I would answer your question of how would "an interested > party [...] objectively determine what the discussion concluded": > instead of approved/rejected, some sort of visual widget on the wiki > page which summarised the {{yes

Re: [Tagging] Revisiting proposal/voting scheme

2015-03-18 Thread David Bannon
Kotya, in no way was I criticising the leadership you have shown in this matter ! Its just that I preferred Dan's approach. Key IMHO is - * A proposal gets to wiki in much the same manner as now. * Once on the wiki, instead of a formal vote period, users (eg) click a "like" or "dislike" button a

Re: [Tagging] Revisiting proposal/voting scheme

2015-03-19 Thread David Bannon
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 10:24 +0100, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > On 18/03/2015, David Bannon wrote: > > No, I'm sorry but I don't see how an interested party can be expected to > > objectively determine what the discussion concluded. > > [...] > > No, sorry, but

Re: [Tagging] Revisiting proposal/voting scheme

2015-03-19 Thread David Bannon
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 11:30 +0100, Kotya Karapetyan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer > > I believe the current requirement to add a reason for a > "dislike" is important and should not be dropped by > substituting it with a simple clic

Re: [Tagging] Accepted or rejected?

2015-03-19 Thread David Bannon
OK, is it fair to say any non specific vote, one that is neither a clear yes nor a clear no is 'informal', not counted. Such a vote was cast with the intention of it adding to neither yes nor no so we should observe the voter's wish. Note their opinion but not count an uncountable vote ? David

Re: [Tagging] Wiki 2.0 Proposal: Unregulated voting : But you must convince another mapper to finalize changes

2015-03-19 Thread David Bannon
Bryce, I think this proposal is far to complicated to be developed on a mailing list. And probably on a Forum. Is it time your bare bones plan move to a wiki page, perhaps as a Best Practice document ? Then we can concentrate on each section, bit by bit and massage it into something great. I do t

[Tagging] List v Forum - was Accepted or rejected?

2015-03-19 Thread David Bannon
One thing I'll say for Forums, at least the format will be consistent. With our List users all using different email clients, with top posters, bottom posters, middle posters, some (me) who like to thin down a message when replying and some who like the message to just get bigger I'm starting

Re: [Tagging] Fuel shops

2015-03-19 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 08:46 +1100, Warin wrote: > > > I've come across regular filling stations without a roof. Indeed, absolutely no reason a "full service" or pump based fuel supplier must have a roof. Usually an office (or shipping container) nearby but pumps out in the open is very common.

Re: [Tagging] Wiki 2.0 Proposal: Unregulated voting : But you must convince another mapper to finalize changes

2015-03-19 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 15:26 +1100, Warin wrote: >> if stinker proposals are promoted to Active, with lots of negative votes. > How is it determined that it is a majority view? Vote? .. back to > square one. Possibly, but probably not in most cases. I doubt too many people on this list would be

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-20 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 21:59 +0100, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > I have updated the proposal with the feedback as much as possible. > And looking good too ! Under "Tagging", item 7, typo, you have "of few" where you mean "or few". Under "Rendering". 1. Blue Tent for Commercial ? Its more caravans h

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-20 Thread David Bannon
Dave, to clarify. You use the term 'RV' as meaning a MotorHome, accommodation built on a truck chassis, and excluding things towed behind a car, SUV or 4x4 ? Here, we use RV to mean Motorhome, caravan, camper. Sometimes even broader. David On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 06:34 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote:

Re: [Tagging] Accepted or rejected?

2015-03-20 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 18:23 +0100, Peter Wendorff wrote: > ... sensible stuff about off line work... > In an ideal world we would have one discussion platform that can be used > by a mail client as well as by a web forum software. I don't know if > anything like that exists, but basically it's the

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-21 Thread David Bannon
On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 07:45 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > I don't think this is accurate. In my experience, designated sites are > very similar to commercial sites except you pay a government for the No no no ! Dave, if its effectively similar to a commercial camp ground, it should be mapped as

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-22 Thread David Bannon
On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 08:02 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: ... > I hadn't thought about it, but we might use the > tag camp_site=permitted_area as attribute of a country border (like > Sweden) to show that camping is allowed anywhere. > Jan, not sure thats a good idea. Here in Oz, you would not "ca

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-22 Thread David Bannon
Dave S, think you missed the list On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 09:19 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > Okay then, Your idea is to define the campgrounds inside of national > and state parks as commercial ones? Well, its more a case of are you paying to camp there ? And are you being provided with ext

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-22 Thread David Bannon
South African National Parks; > > > How about full_service, full_featured, comprehensive? I don't > like any of these and only offer them as food for thought. But > I cannot get on board with commercial. > > > >

Re: [Tagging] Loomio evaluation

2015-03-23 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 19:07 +0100, Kotya Karapetyan wrote: > We'll definitely need to find a smart and soft way to attract people > to a different platform. I think its better than the email list. For a number of reasons. And while the list also wins a couple of points, overall, Loomio is bette

Re: [Tagging] Accepted or rejected?

2015-03-23 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 15:04 +0100, fly wrote: > as long as there is no alternative for offline support we need email. Fly, once registered as a Loomio user, you can still choose to receive and respond to email, maybe without ever actually logging into the Loomio interface again (?). > Please als

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-23 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 19:12 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > The majority of campgrounds United States parks are not guarded, Agree, "guarded" is not a very friendly word ! > and almost never fully staffed. yes, "fully staffed" implies 24/7 or thereabouts. We need to include parks where some supe

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-23 Thread David Bannon
Just to make sure we are all singing from the same hymn book, here is a table summarising the differences between these different camp sites. Sorry if you are not using fixed spacing fonts, you should ! StandardDesignated Trekking Informal Fee Significant No/Nominal ?

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-23 Thread David Bannon
OK, I'm struggling. I started answering Dave S's stuff (below) and realised I was really arguing away the who catagory approach. Sigh. Are we better saying - tourism=camp_site toilets=yes sanitary_dump_station=yes amenity=showers fee=yes tourism=camp_site toilets=no sanitary_dump_station=no fee

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-24 Thread David Bannon
While loosing faith in the proposal, I'd still like to make it work. On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 16:18 +0900, johnw wrote: > > Also - as Martin mentioned - how is the fee associated with the > grounds change their usage? All the car camping grounds in Japan are > private businesses. They all charg

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-24 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 09:42 -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, David Bannon wrote > > Are we better saying - > tourism=camp_site > toilets=yes > sanitary_dump_station=yes > amenity=shower

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-24 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:06 +1100, Warin wrote: > No, not a decision for the render but information for the end user .. the > most important pero=son is the end user! > 'Customers' first! :-) I don't think there are too many "end users" who look up the raw data! > The map user wants to search f

Re: [Tagging] Camp Ground Categories - Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-25 Thread David Bannon
Warin suggested new category names and implied meanings. Think it was a quick draft, I have a counter "quick draft" along same lines. On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:06 +1100, Warin wrote: > None= nothing other than an area to pitch a tent or park a vehicle. > Basic = None + a toilet > Standard = Basic

Re: [Tagging] Camp Ground Categories - Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-25 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 19:36 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > .that will require a separate node for each of them. The nodes > will be hard to place unless you actually visit the campground in Indeed Dave, thats my worry with this model. Same applies for survey people in many cases. I'd need to w

Re: [Tagging] Camp Ground Categories - Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-25 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 15:49 +0100, Marc Gemis wrote: > When we were looking for a campsite, we often visited [1]. The list of > features they show is much longer than any of you have in mind. Indeed, that list was 1 minute of thought ! >... > Should all this information be available in OSM ? Y

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-25 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 20:42 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > > I really do want to keep non-designated as currently proposed. It was > my main reason to start with the proposal. I understand it is not > important in western countries, but it is vital in Africa and the > Middle East. It is a site wit

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-25 Thread David Bannon
ality can change quickly, therefore I > don't want to mix with regular campsites. > > If a hotel has a permanent campground with amenities next to the hotel > building the run like a standard campsite it is not in the > non-designated category. > > &

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-26 Thread David Bannon
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 05:51 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > Dave, I think we are after different things. Your proposal focuses on > availability of services, while mine tells more about the relation > between the camper and the land owner: Yes Jan, I agree. You have summed it up perfectly ! I'm af

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-26 Thread David Bannon
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 09:10 +0100, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > To give you a better impression of what I mean with non-designated > campsites I uploaded images of places we stayed at in Iran, Ethiopia, > Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Malawi. Have a look here and > enjoy. As you can see the quali

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-26 Thread David Bannon
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 12:36 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > Non-designated is not necessarily temporary. Some hotels may offer the > service for many years, but it is not officially announced and not > listed. For overlanders this information is too important not to have > it mapped somehow. > I s

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 06:41 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > We can use camp_site=opportunistic_hospitality for > We can use tourism=camp_site:non_designated for all cases Sorry Jan, people, me included, do not like "=non_designated". Honestly, I could learn to really dislike "=opportunistic_hospi

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 06:41 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > We can use camp_site=opportunistic_hospitality for > We can use tourism=camp_site:non_designated for all cases Sorry Jan, people, me included, do not like "=non_designated". Honestly, I could learn to really dislike "=opportunistic_hospi

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 06:41 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > * We can use camp_site=opportunistic_hospitality for the > hotels, > * We can use tourism=camp_site:non_designated for all cases that > the Sorry Jan, people, me included, do not like "=non_designated". Honest

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
Sorry folks, email client problems. Evolution and bugs ! David On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 19:10 +1100, David Bannon wrote: > On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 06:41 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > > > * We can use camp_site=opportunistic_hospitality for the > > hotels, >

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 07:31 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > Separate nodes for campground and amenities connected in a site > relation Only practical solution IHMO. David ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.opens

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
amples ? It does mean that a camp_site needs to be mapped as a polygon, not a node but thats not too bad. David > > > > > regards > > > > > m > > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:site > > > > > > On Fri, Ma

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 16:55 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > How about camp_site=hospitality for those hotels that offer camping on > their grounds, or certain parking lots that allow camping, e.g., > WalMart. > > > The hotel industry is, after all, sometimes referred to as the > hospitality indust

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 14:07 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > It is a bit of a philosophical question: do you prefer a placeholder > or a polygon of which you don't know how correct it is, for example a > forest behind the campsite that may or may not be part of the > campground. In natural surroundi

[Tagging] How does an end user use camp site data ?

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
Folks, we have been discussing this camp_site= issue for a long time. And I don't think we are making any progress. How about we apply a design approach ? Agree on how the "average" end user would use the data ? In my opinion, a camper is likely look on a map hoping to see a camp site near where

Re: [Tagging] How does an end user use camp site data ?

2015-03-27 Thread David Bannon
On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 15:57 +1100, Warin wrote: > > The next step is a web search. Thus the website= link is the most > > important > Assumes web access.. as most of Australia has no cell phone access? > Satellite phone! I carry one but save its expensive quota for desperate stuff ! > Me? I lo

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-28 Thread David Bannon
On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 07:09 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > 1. Get a high level of classification of campsites based on the > relation between the land owner and the camper > 2. Get a classification of regular campsites based on available > facilities. Agreed Jan. Differ

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-28 Thread David Bannon
On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 12:26 +0100, Marc Gemis wrote: > If I am on a large campsite I want to use "the map" to find my way to > all amenities. If you have put everything on 1 node it's a pretty > useless map, not ? Agree in principle Marc but don't think its always practical. I have been to many c

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-28 Thread David Bannon
On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 21:57 -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > wrote: > Just a note about using semicolon-delimited lists. Most > renderers do not handle such lists very well so a tag like the > following: > amenity=bar;restaurant;picnic_table;sanitary_dump_station > M

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-29 Thread David Bannon
So you have renamed it Jan ? Happy to see the original name, camp_site, pop up in parallel ? Probably make sense to deal with them both as closely as we can. An outsider, someone who has not seen the effort put in here (especially by you), may see these as competing entries but they are really no

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - power_supply:schedule

2015-03-29 Thread David Bannon
On Sun, 2015-03-29 at 09:31 -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > Among other things, perhaps it would be better to change the final > wiki vote status from "approved" to > > something more like "debate complete" or "published". Indeed, "published" is good. I'd prefer that to "debate complete" as i

Re: [Tagging] Tagging established, unofficial and wild campings

2015-03-29 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 10:49 +1100, Warin wrote: >. > From very distant memory those were temporary .. > some times once only, sometimes once every few years. > And they were restricted to scouts only .. thus access=scouts? > No Warin, don't think we are talking about the same sort of camp. Th

[Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 05:44 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > .. I hope someone else will stand up to kick off the camp_site=* > proposal for facility levels. > OK Jan, hint taken. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Camp_Site Very early, lot more needs be done. I'm going to b

Re: [Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 17:05 +0900, johnw wrote: > camp_site:restaurant=yes > camp_site:water=yes > camp_site:space_water=no > campsite:kitchen=yes > camp_site:space_bbq=no John, this model would work fine if the end user was using a interactive tool where he could say "show me all the camps that c

Re: [Tagging] Tagging method of amenities at camp_sites

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
enities. There have > been many discussions about this issue on this list > and elsewhere > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:39 AM, David Bannon > wrote: > On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 12:26 +

Re: [Tagging] Status 'Draft' ... vs status 'Proposed'?

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 12:22 +1100, Warin wrote: > There have been some comments on people making comments on the voting > stage of a proposal. I think this comes about because of the large > number of proposals with the status 'proposed'. Indeed. And you suggest a viable solution but I wonder i

Re: [Tagging] RFC - proposal page for camp_site=

2015-03-30 Thread David Bannon
I have fleshed out the camp_site proposal page a bit. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Camp_Site And added some text in the discussion page identifying the three decisions that need to be made before the proposal proceeds - 1 -Is this the right model ? By model, I mean the id

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Rename wiki status "Approved" to "Published"

2015-04-04 Thread David Bannon
Honestly, this "approved" v. something else is a storm in a tea cup. The proposals have been (or not) approved. Yes, by a small minority of OSM mappers but ones who have thought about the proposal and they are not in any way an exclusive group. It does not say compulsory, required or anything pre

Re: [Tagging] Ambiguous translations of waterway=dam - should be moved to man_made=dam

2015-04-15 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 12:35 -0300, Lists wrote: ... > > Since the dam structure is a man_made construction, I suggest that the > tag should be moved into that namespace. Currently we should abandon > (deprecate) the tag waterway=dam to avoid conflicts with existing > tagging scheme, and maybe in t

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-04-16 Thread David Bannon
That scheme seems to rely on house number model. Sure looks good. But does it, by implication, indicate there is a (eg) a house number 12 on the unnamed service road ? I'm not into mapping house numbers so don't know if thats important or not. David On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 10:51 -0700, Bryce

[Tagging] proposal - camp_site=

2015-04-17 Thread David Bannon
Folks, to revisit a topic that had lots of discussion last month ! I have updated the proposal page for camp_site=[basic; standard; serviced; delux]. I now avoid the question of how to tag multiple instances of (eg) amenity on the one node, area. People seem to have strong but conflicting views a

Re: [Tagging] proposal - camp_site=

2015-04-19 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 09:02 +1000, Warin wrote: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Camp_Site > My comment. Any reason for the colours? > Honestly, no, I prefer the (eg) map makers determined what suits them best. Quite happy to swap as you suggest but wonder if the proposal

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-04-19 Thread David Bannon
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 18:10 -0700, Tod Fitch wrote: > I’ve been using the tagging suggested at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Extend_camp_site#Tagging_of_individual_pitches > so they have camp_site=pitch on them. > Tod, there was a fair bit of discussion here in Feb (?) a

Re: [Tagging] proposal - camp_site=

2015-04-20 Thread David Bannon
> > to indicate remote or primitive camping areas. I think it needs to be > added it to the list of related tags in this proposal. There are 1300 > of these tags existing presently. It might also need inclusion on the > other camp_site page we've been working with. > &g

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-04-20 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 11:13 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I think the number should go into ref, e.g. > ref=42 > camping:pitch=yes or camp_site:pitch=yes (etc., e.g. permanent, > tent, ...) not actually proposed or detailed yet > Martin, think that makes sense, there are a whole range of

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-04-21 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 14:45 -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: >... > The fact that rendering on osm-carto is so far behind tagging is an > issue. > Indeed. > But treating the campsite like a building, and the pitches like > apartments, makes a lot of logical sense. I don't see any theoretical issue w

Re: [Tagging] proposal - camp_site=

2015-04-22 Thread David Bannon
OK, I think the discussion on camp_site= has settled down and now concentrates on things that are just outside the current proposal and probably need to stay there for now. Thoughts, yes, no ? I have mentioned on the proposal page tagging of individual pitches and declared that out of scope for n

Re: [Tagging] proposal - camp_site=

2015-04-23 Thread David Bannon
On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 15:16 +0900, johnw wrote: > That’s why I thought " informal yet legal spots" would be good wording > to cover this, and maybe link over to the camp_type proposal here - > because with the wording for basic, the first thing I thought about > was the legality or designation of

Re: [Tagging] Proofread

2015-04-23 Thread David Bannon
Bryce, I was away and inattentive while this discussion went on, so don't understand ! * amenity=sanitary_dump_station - Standalone facility for marine users * waterway=sanitary_dump_station - Standalone facility for land users Seem to be wrong way around to me ! Why is "waterway" used for lan

Re: [Tagging] proposal - camp_site=

2015-04-23 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 06:47 +0900, John Willis wrote: > I don't want people to map known illegal camp sites or places they just > happened to spend the night and think are nice but are on a farmers private > property just to complete the map, as "map the ground truth" means mapping > basic+

Re: [Tagging] proposal - camp_site=

2015-04-23 Thread David Bannon
Jan, are you going to have another try at camp_type= ? I think the term "non-designated" was a contributor to it struggling. Trouble is, the idea you have here is an important one but one its quite hard to get your head around. David On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 05:05 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: >

Re: [Tagging] proposal - camp_site= Voting on the 28th

2015-04-25 Thread David Bannon
can get. Lets see if thats good enough ... David On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 10:10 +0900, John Willis wrote: > Seems great ! > > Javbw > > > > On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:52 AM, David Bannon wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 0

[Tagging] proposal - camp_site= Voting is now open.

2015-04-28 Thread David Bannon
OK folks, everyone has had every chance to tell us what is wrong with this proposal, its now open for voting. We have talked and talked ! Lets vote now please ! https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Camp_Site David ___ Tagging maili

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-04-29 Thread David Bannon
> tourism=camp_site (for the site) or tourism=caravan_site > camp_site=pitch Bryce, this was discussed some weeks ago. Several months ago we were advised that a camp_site is the larger site that contains one or (usually) more pitches. Therefore to say that a particular instance of a camp_

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-05-01 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 17:43 -0700, Tod Fitch wrote: > ... I guess the page could be renamed to campground pitch No need ! Its the camp_site= part that is my problem. > (I guess I should look into how one properly can rename a wiki page. . .) Hmm, carefully I suggest. > I guess there could be a

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-05-02 Thread David Bannon
On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 13:39 -0700, Tod Fitch wrote: > It may be common in some areas to allow pitching tents anywhere within > a designated area. But I have mapped a couple of backcountry > (backpack) trail camps that have a numbered post at each pitch, Indeed. We need to cater to the full range,

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-05-02 Thread David Bannon
On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 22:22 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > camp_pitch=42 ? > I think this would be an elegant and short method to do it, but it > will very likely lead to osm-carto not supporting it (not in the key > namespace that gets included in the rendering db and unlikely there > will

Re: [Tagging] Camps

2015-05-05 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 09:44 +, Jerry Clough - OSM wrote: > > It seems to me that the obvious generalisation, which would cover > camps organised for profit and by non-profits would be > leisure=vacation_camp. I don't think 'vacation' or 'leisure' are good terms at all. A lot of people use t

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-05-05 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 18:22 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote: > It has been many years since I last went tent-camping, but my > experience of campgrounds in the US national park system was numbered > poles marking each campsite, a grassy area for pitching a tent, and a > charcoal grill mounted on a st

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of pitches within a campsite

2015-05-05 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 18:54 -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > >>There are some like that, maybe a concrete or tarmac base so tent > The amenity=caravan_site was indeed invented for what amounts to a > parking lot for overnight use by RV's. Do you mean tourism=caravan_site (14K uses v. 1 use)?

Re: [Tagging] Camps

2015-05-06 Thread David Bannon
n was why are we talking about leisure= when we were talking about tourism= ? There is a large usage of tourism= already there, almost no leisure=. David > > > Jerry > > > ______ > From: David Bannon &

Re: [Tagging] Camps

2015-05-06 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 11:09 +, p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: > > A resort is usually a town whos primary purpose is tourism. A resort > is not operated by a single company, and access is not restricted. > Resort should probably be avoided due to totally different meanings > between BE and

Re: [Tagging] Camps

2015-05-07 Thread David Bannon
On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 07:12 +, p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: > > OK Phil, I was not aware of that difference. So that leaves us wonder > > what to call those UK Holiday Camps ? Leave it to the UK people I > > guess. > > > There are not many left, they were of their time. In the UK context > t

[Tagging] proposal - camp_site= Voting ends soon

2015-05-10 Thread David Bannon
Approaching close of vote on this proposed feature. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Camp_Site We currently have - 8 approvals 1 reject 2 abstains The 'reject' notes some use of camp_site=pitch already and suggests a conflict. If we accept that, it has implication for how th

Re: [Tagging] Proposed tag value: surface=bare_rock

2015-05-10 Thread David Bannon
On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 09:06 +1000, Warin wrote: > Hummm ... the mappers want more detail .. the renders less? This (surface=) was the topic for a long discussion last year. As you say, mappers seem to want to put more and more detail into the database. Its really a case of "write only memory" - yo

Re: [Tagging] man_made=apiary or ?

2015-05-12 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 13:13 -0400, Anders Anker-Rasch wrote: > first post on the tagging list so I'll try to be short. Welcome Anders, very welcome! > > Apiary tagging is still "in limbo" - and has been so for some years > now as I can see from the talk. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:

Re: [Tagging] Tagging FOR the renderer

2015-05-17 Thread David Bannon
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 23:01 +0200, Daniel Koć wrote: > Once we start seeing through the eyes of people using the > map, who can help expand and refine our data, we can understand what are > their background, what are the problems for them and how they may behave > when experiencing obstacle

Re: [Tagging] RFC Reception_desk Mk2

2015-05-20 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 11:09 +1000, Warin wrote: > Link to the proposal = > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/amenity% > 3Dreception_desk > I still see this as a useful thing. David > For those not familiar with the proposal. > A Reception Desk provides a place where people (

Re: [Tagging] Replace tagging mailling list with Loomio?

2015-05-23 Thread David Bannon
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 14:50 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Of over 400 people posting on the tagging list, only 5 have shown any > interest in that. I'll leave it to you to infer any decisions from that ;) Well, yes. As one of the five who did try, I can say I tried it. It works, its possibly a bit

Re: [Tagging] Future of categories (was: Re: Deprecating wikipedia Tag)

2015-05-26 Thread David Bannon
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 18:06 +, Janko Mihelić wrote: > I think we need a separate instalation of wikibase on our wiki. No > need to fork wikibase. Then we can organize our tags in categories, > subcategories, relations to outside data like wikidata and so on. Yep, great concept, could be OSM Ta

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a salt flat

2015-09-30 Thread David Bannon
On 30/09/15 21:28, Warin wrote: .. Well if you want to have lake Eyre 'qualify' for the tag 'intermittent' . But if you want to see Lake Eyre full .. 'typically' that is once every 10 years or so... So to me a full cycle of Lake Eyre in all its 'seasons' would be 'typically' 10 year

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a salt flat

2015-09-30 Thread David Bannon
ound. But thats not intermittent IMHO. I don't think "intermittent" and "seasonal" go well together. David On 01/10/15 10:16, Warin wrote: On 1/10/2015 8:49 AM, David Bannon wrote: On 30/09/15 21:28, Warin wrote: .. Well if you want to have lake Eyre 'qualify'

Re: [Tagging] Proposal to Change Road Classification, Road Surface, Road Condition, and Add Number of Lanes

2016-03-08 Thread David Bannon
Wow Alberto, you have put a lot of thought into this. I agree its needed and think the model would serve us a lot better than the way its done now. But I see a couple of problems, first, we have a huge data set using the existing model. Very hard to change that. Secondly, I suspect not all cont

Re: [Tagging] State parks and state forests: specific tagging question, general mapping philosophy

2016-07-26 Thread David Bannon
On 27/07/16 12:59, Kevin Kenny wrote: . How about we make a deal that when the "correct" tagging actually becomes visible on at least one layer of the main site, I go back and remove the "legacy" tagging, which can be done with a mechanical edit? Kevin, I share your frustration but sugge

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (midwife)

2016-08-22 Thread David Bannon
David, I am very sorry to only comment after you have gone to the vote, very rude of me ! But I have been away, quite remote and very poor internet access, big backlog of unread mail. David, my partner is a midwife but of the "specialist nurse" variety. What concerns us is how this tag will

Re: [Tagging] Help required on tagging a "wadi"

2016-09-04 Thread David Bannon
On 05/09/16 04:34, Greg Wickham wrote: In Saudi Arabia a wadi is a mostly dry riverbed that carries water very infrequently (maybe a couple of times year). .. Would these tags be ok for a: “sandy bottomed wadi; 4wd only" waterway = wadi intermittent = yes highway = track trackty

Re: [Tagging] Help required on tagging a "wadi"

2016-09-05 Thread David Bannon
On 06/09/16 08:08, Tod Fitch wrote: There are places in the desert southwest of the United States where the place you drive is exactly the water course. And these can extend for miles. Saying that one feature on the ground needs to OSM objects because they have different properties is bogus:

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

2016-10-26 Thread David Bannon
Sven, your approach makes sense assuming people only look at maps of their own country. Yes, I agree its respectful to people living in a non english speaking country but really does not address a much larger problem. As a native English speaker, I often turn to OSM to help me understand some

Re: [Tagging] dog toilets

2016-11-09 Thread David Bannon
I would find it very hard to support "potty_area". A potty is a container used by small children during toilet training, what has that got to do with dogs ? David On 10/11/16 01:24, joost schouppe wrote: Hi, Many cities have special little areas which are specifically meant to be used as a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - dog toilets

2017-01-21 Thread David Bannon
Thanks Joost, I'd prefer option one or four. wrt lack of porcelain, the term "toilet" can also be used to refer to the room where the porcelain thing is located. So dog_toilet seems quite accurate. But dog* or pet* ? I do see people traveling with a cat but would be very surprised if a cat wa

Re: [Tagging] self-service laudry machines a camp and caravan sites

2017-02-09 Thread David Bannon
I would think shop=laundry means there is some sort of service provided at the campsite that involves someone else actually doing your laundry for you for a fee. As you say, thats not the same thing as having machines available at a camp for you to do your laundry. I would prefer something li

Re: [Tagging] amenity=vending_machine and vending=public_transport_plans?

2017-02-18 Thread David Bannon
On 18/02/17 18:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: ...a 'ticket' could be 'single use, with the option of a return journey, for a set distance or place'. ...a 'card' could be 'multiple use, no set time or distance, limited by the amount on the card'? ...a 'pass' could be for a planned trip over a se

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: Feature Proposal - Voting - tag "motorcycle friendly" for accomodations

2017-03-05 Thread David Bannon
Maybe its time someone put a note on the proposal page saying that the author is posting to the list but does not appear to be receiving messages from it ? In case its a language issue, could that message be in German and English perhaps ? David On 06/03/17 05:17, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: Feature Proposal - Voting - tag "motorcycle friendly" for accomodations

2017-03-06 Thread David Bannon
On 07/03/17 04:55, Thilo Haug wrote: .. I (accidentally) unsubscribed because of the "spam" coming in, means I didn't get just messages regarding the topic. Thilo, perhaps thats the underlying problem here ? You read the rules on the wiki, complied with what you understood and now, I gues

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