Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - highway=motorway_junction Tagging Extension

2011-05-22 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 22 May 2011 02:38:48 -0400, James Mast wrote: > I've created a proposal for an extension of the sub-tags (ref=* and > exit_to=*) of highway=motorway_junction. > This is to help people on tagging highway ramps that split farther down after > they leave the main highway. It will also help

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Club

2011-06-07 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:13:42 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > [..] > > What about using "association", and have subtags for the > organisational form and targets (e.g. voluntary, paid membership, > whatever). Just my opinion, but "association" is longer to type and more error-prone. I can alre

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - (sceptic_tank)"

2011-10-22 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:04:48 +0300, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > Hi, > > Sean Blaschke and myself also created a page for sceptic_tank. You dont want > to fall into one, so mapping them seems like a good idea. > > Also, some of them can be emptied, which calls for mapping too. > > page is here

Re: [Tagging] Health and other stories

2012-01-10 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:02:23 +0100, sabas88 wrote: > Hi list, > I want to suggest a topic of discussion not often considered: planning a > more rational tagging system to be applied onto the existing data and for > the future. Stefano, you know I fully support you. We started a similar thread on

Re: [Tagging] Converting relation type "relatedStreet" to "assiciatedStreet"

2012-02-19 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:56:19 +0100, Werner Hoch wrote: > Hi there, Hello, > the relation type page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Types_of_relation > > lists the relatedStreet relation as an similar type of associatedStreet. > > Are there any objection to convert and cleanup the related

Re: [Tagging] Converting relation type "relatedStreet" to "assiciatedStreet"

2012-02-19 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:56:39 +0100, Werner Hoch wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 19.02.2012, 11:07 +0100 schrieb David Paleino: > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:56:19 +0100, Werner Hoch wrote: > > > the relation type page: > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Types_of_rela

Re: [Tagging] Converting relation type "relatedStreet" to "assiciatedStreet"

2012-02-19 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:07:12 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > (we should also include type=collection + collection=street and type=route + > route=street -- rationale for the latter is that named routes should be > route=road) Oh, and I see also type=address... meh :) Seems like we

[Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
Hello list, while wondering about street-related things with other folks on #osm...@oftc, we came to the question: why is Relation:associatedStreet needed at all? (Karlsruhe schema) I've always used it to associate housenumbers to the given street (I found a relation more error-proof than addr:str

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:42:12 +0200, Simone Saviolo wrote: > 2010/9/1 David Paleino : > > In fact, we already have a relation for grouping a street together (various > > segments + "links"). That's Relation:route, with route=road. What about a > > "

[Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:09:22 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:00 AM, David Paleino > wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:42:12 +0200, Simone Saviolo wrote: > > > >> 2010/9/1 David Paleino : > >> > In fact, we already have a

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:19:49 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > However, I'm using that because I consider "Foo Avenue" as a logical unit, a > "route", even if the way is split (because of oneways, different > classifications, different tags, wha

Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:26:26 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:19 AM, David Paleino > wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:09:22 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> Why is a route relation needed to group the segments of a street? > > > > I

Re: [Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

2010-09-01 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:31:22 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > Hello list, > while wondering about street-related things with other folks on #osm...@oftc, > we came to the question: why is Relation:associatedStreet needed at all? > (Karlsruhe schema) > > I've always used it to

Re: [Tagging] name:English, name:Español and lei sure:pitch & pitch:? or sport:?

2010-09-21 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:32:30 -0600, Eric Jarvies wrote: > Is this how to tag them?; > name:English Name > name:es:Español > > Or do I need to do this: > name:English Name > name:es > es:Español name=Name in English name:es=Nombre en Español David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.d

Re: [Tagging] name:English, name:Español and lei sure:pitch & pitch:? or sport:?

2010-09-21 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:41:22 -0600, Eric Jarvies wrote: > On Sep 21, 2010, at 8:28 AM, David Paleino wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:32:30 -0600, Eric Jarvies wrote: > > > >> Is this how to tag them?; > >> name:English Name > >> name:es:

Re: [Tagging] name:English, name:Español and lei sure:pitch & pitch:? or sport:?

2010-09-21 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:51:33 +0100, char...@cferrero.net wrote: > David Paleino (da...@debian.org) wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:32:30 -0600, Eric Jarvies wrote: > > > >> Is this how to tag them?; > >> name:English Name > >> name

Re: [Tagging] amenity=ice_cream: approved?

2010-09-27 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:26:27 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features%2FIce_cream&action=historysubmit&diff=532984&oldid=531944 > This doesn't seem quite right. 27-18 + 1 abstain, seems an "approved" to me. Controversial, yes, but approved

[Tagging] Re-organizing food "things"? (was: Re: amenity=ice_cream: approved?)

2010-09-27 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:14:19 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:48 AM, David Paleino > wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:26:27 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > > > >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features%2FIce_crea

Re: [Tagging] Re-organizing food "things"?

2010-09-27 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:11:08 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:49 AM, David Paleino > wrote: > > On a related note: me and some other people on #osm-it were thinking about > > re-organizing the "food" tagging (take "food" as an ex

Re: [Tagging] Re-organizing food "things"?

2010-09-27 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:15:50 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:05 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > > In German I would use "Gastronomie" as main tag for those, but I'm not > > sure if "gastronomy" would be the exact translation in English for > > this. My dictionary suggests "cat

Re: [Tagging] Re-organizing food "things"? (was: Re: amenity=ice_cream: approved?)

2010-09-27 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:19:58 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/9/27 Elena of Valhalla > : > > of course, we still have the problem with the tag name, since > > "food+drink" doesn't look quite right > > if is probably not "good English", but I think it's quite appealing: > it is easily unde

[Tagging] [OT] Re: Re-organizing food "things"?

2010-09-27 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:08:56 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > [..] > a restaurant produces the food (prepares it from raw or semi-worked > material). Then it's clearly craft=restaurant! :-D "[..] A place producing or processing customized goods. [..] craft=* for small production on demand an

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Roundabout Priority

2010-09-27 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:36:18 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: > I am making a simple proposal of "roundabout=priority_to_right" to > indicate a specific non-standard priority arrangement on some > roundabouts occurring in some parts of mainland Europe. Shouldn't this be better done with a proper rig

Re: [Tagging] add leisure=swimming_pool to the core-features

2010-10-11 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:55:36 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > [..] (Btw.: it used to be a wiki, but unfortunately there was a > technical hurdle introduced so I am no more able to add tags to these > lists). Can someone add this please? > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:leisure Can't yo

Re: [Tagging] Sidewalks vs Footways

2011-03-17 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:15:48 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > There's an abandoned tag for sidewalks along the side of the road that > apparently has some use in the UK: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Footway > > http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Great_britain/En/tags.html >

Re: [Tagging] Sidewalks vs Footways

2011-03-17 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:17:14 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > Based on this thread, there seems to be general consensus that the > term "sidewalk" is less linguistically ambiguous than footway. I'd like to point out that not all footways are sidewalks. Sidewalks/pavements/whatever_you_call_them a

Re: [Tagging] Sidewalks vs Footways

2011-03-17 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:53:39 -0400, Josh Doe wrote: > David, > I like this proposal, it should work well for the areas I've been > mapping. However I have been using the proposed sloped_curb=yes [1], > though I haven't been happy with it. There's also the proposed > kerb=lowered [2], which seems e

Re: [Tagging] Sidewalks vs Footways

2011-03-17 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:40:21 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David Paleino > wrote: > > ...and I tried to make a unified proposal some time ago (which I have been > > following for the few sidewalks I mapped). It has been written down with th

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:17:10 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > As per the discussion last week about Sidewalks, I'm re-opening the > sidewalk proposal as per: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk > > We've already had some preliminary discussion on this tag and there'

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:29:28 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:17:10 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > > > As per the discussion last week about Sidewalks, I'm re-opening the > > sidewalk proposal as per: > > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:39:52 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > David, you expressed some interest in this last week, and Josh > suggested that since you were so interested, you make the proposal, And I will... > but I didn't see anything, ...just not enough time right now (university exams -- se

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:24:55 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Josh Doe > wrote: > > Serge, > > I think we're really talking about two proposals here, both of which > > have merit. The linked proposal has been around for a while, and > > involves tagging the road

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:21:02 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:47 PM, David Paleino > wrote: > > > Since "my" proposal was the one most agreed on, why can't you just start > > using the tags/way-of-mapping in my page? :) > &

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:47:39 +0100, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2011/3/21 David Paleino : > > To tag a sidewalk: > > highway=footway > > footway=sidewalk > > > >> I disagree. As mentioned in the Sidewalk tag, we already have > >> highway=footway,

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:04:38 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > [..] and I feel David wants something else entirely and > is suffering from a bit of NIH syndrome, [..] While I thought at the proposal entirely (almost, credits also go to #osm-it folks) on my own, I seem to have reached the same conc

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:17:10 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > [..] Given I have better things to do tonight, such as studying for my exam on Wednesday, I won't send any more mails to this thread. So please forgive me: I don't even know if I'll have time to read the mails. I'll surely read them be

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalk

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:12:55 +0100, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2011/3/21 David Paleino : > > >> I agree with Serge: you would change the meaning of highway=footway > >> (because to interpret it right after your amendment, you would have to > >> look at the

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread David Paleino
Hello everybody, as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way I tried to summarize what my ideas are, and why I don't believe that tagging the main road is any good. To summarize here: to tag a sidewalk: *

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:53:12 -0400, Josh Doe wrote: > [..] Like I've said on the talk page, I believe this and the other sidewalk > proposal can coexist, although I prefer your proposed scheme. I think that too; however, I believe the other proposal could be useful for "temporary tagging", much l

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:59:12 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:53:12 -0400, Josh Doe wrote: > > > [..] Like I've said on the talk page, I believe this and the other sidewalk > > proposal can coexist, although I prefer your proposed scheme. > >

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-24 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:10:36 +, Craig Wallace wrote: > On 24/03/2011 20:15, David Paleino wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. > > > > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
No need to CC me, thanks. On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:00:34 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, David Paleino > wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. > > > >  http://wiki.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:42:37 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 3/25/2011 4:37 AM, David Paleino wrote: > > Routing, not rendering. We don't care about rendering, do you? > > We certainly care about rendering. What we perhaps shouldn't care about > is how a sp

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:21:51 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > You're proposing a new relation type, I'm not. I'm proposing to use associatedStreet, which is well-established. My preference for "street" is another story. *Entirely*. > a set of associated tags, etc. in support of the sidewalk data

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:57:10 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fairhurst wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > > Come on, it's like any other relation. If potlatch can't support *ANY* > > kind of relation editing, it's not my fault. It's a bug. I don't use > > Potl

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:18:07 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fairhurst wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > > Why, oh why, this seems so out-of-context to me? > > I think I already gave a solution: if you want to do it simple, use > > sidewalk=*. > > If you want to add more details, f

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:38:18 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fairhurst wrote: > [..] > Anyone can map anything in Potlatch, or JOSM, or Merkaartor, or their own > favourite editor, by creating the primitives manually, and adding tags, > using the standard UI. Of course they can. > > Yet this isn't always a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:07:12 +, SomeoneElse wrote: > What I don't yet understand is the workflow associated with the > "Sidewalk_as_separate_way" proposal. Through the window I can see a > road which has a (currently unmapped) footpath/sidewalk along both sides > for part of its length and

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:06:06 +0100, Jo wrote: > We also need to add cycleways to associatedStreet relations then and bus > stops and their platforms and parking lanes. Why? -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.n

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-03-25 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:06:06 +0100, Jo wrote: > We also need to add cycleways to associatedStreet relations then and bus > stops and their platforms and parking lanes. Ok, I understand it might make sense. A role "cycleway" for cycleways? But that's out of scope for this proposal. For bus stops/

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread David Paleino
Hello Ed, On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 22:26:22 -0400, Ed Hillsman wrote: > The discussion of the sidewalk issue seems to have stopped. I added > some comments in the discussion section of the wiki last week, but > there have been no further comments there or here in nearly a week. I saw your comments

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Sidewalks as separate ways

2011-04-03 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:49:18 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 4/3/2011 9:38 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: > > * Ed Hillsman > > [2011-04-02 22:26 -0400]: > >> Would it work to add a tag "associated_street" and then simply list the > >> name of the street? For example, highway=footway, > >> associated_s

[Tagging] Proposed feature - Sidewalks as separate ways - Voting

2011-04-12 Thread David Paleino
Hello people, since there have been no discussion in the last days, I believe the ideas are clear enough about the proposal. If you have questions, please post them to the proposal's talk page, I'll reply promptly (or will try to :)). In any case, the voting is open: http://wiki.openstreetmap.o

Re: [Tagging] steel worker and smaller concrete structures on site

2011-04-15 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:48:35 -0400, Josh Doe wrote: > I feel so confused... of course you aren't talking about mapping people ?? Why not? :) Realtime worldwide people tracking using OSM. (and now you all know what's the purpose of the subcutaneous chips implanted by aliens) Yay! -- . ''

Re: [Tagging] Proposed feature - Sidewalks as separate ways - Voting

2011-04-27 Thread David Paleino
Hello everybody, On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:10:34 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > [..] > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way > > As per the wiki guidelines, the voting period is 14 days. Starting today, > ending Apr, 26. The vo