[Tagging] disguised communication towers

Hi everyone, >From my morning reading it seems that entities tagged with tower:type=communication tower:construction=concealed and either man_made=mast or man_made=tower should cough up cellphone towers masquerading as cacti, palms, pines, flagpoles, and such. But apart from a note="pine tre

Re: [Tagging] disguised communication towers

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:17 PM ael wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 01:00:29PM -0800, Eric Theise wrote: > > tower:type=communication > > tower:construction=concealed > > > > and either man_made=mast or man_made=tower should cough up cellphone > towers &g

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - mimics

Since 1992 cellphone masts and towers have been disguised as trees, cacti, and other features of the natural and built world. The suggested practice for tagging this infrastructure is to use man_made=tower or man_made=mast with tower:type=communication in combination with tower:construction=conceal

Re: [Tagging] disguised communication towers

I've emailed the list with a Request For Comments on a key for communication masts and towers: mimics. Thanks, Eric On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 1:57 PM Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > On 14. Nov 2019, at 22:04, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don not understand wh

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - mimics

Hi Paul, Thanks for the quick feedback. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM Paul Allen wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 20:54, Eric Theise wrote: > >> >> I propose to introduce the key mimics to remedy this. >> > > I'm not sure "mimics" is a good key,

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - mimics

I've updated the proposal to incorporate Paul Allen's suggestion that the practice of using tower:construction=concealed be deprecated when a mast or tower is tagged with mimics=*. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:39 PM Eric Theise wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Thanks for the quick feedba

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - mimics

mimics" is well-understood and precise so I'm going to leave that in the proposal. Thanks, Eric P.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:06 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 08:40, Eric Theise wrote: > >> &g

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - Mimics

Hi everyone, The two week discussion period about this feature has elapsed and I am calling for a vote at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Mimics You may remember that the proposed feature applies to cellphone masts and towers that are disguised, to varying degrees of suc

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting Result - Mimics

Voting was open from 29 Nov 2019 through 13 Dec 2019. The final tally was 21 yes votes, 0 no votes, and 3 abstentions. Thanks to everyone who voted and/or participated in the discussion. Eric ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://li

[Tagging] wiki template help

Hi everyone, I'm writing up the documentation for mimics. It was clear from comments that people desired a stronger statement of the recommended values for the key. I was under the impression that by using a KeyDescription template at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:mimics and ValueDescri

Re: [Tagging] wiki template help

Created a table of recommended values manually and ditched the idea of multiple pages created using ValueDescription. On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 5:54 PM Eric Theise wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm writing up the documentation for mimics. It was clear from comments > that people d

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Givebox

People's Park in Berkeley was known for, among other things, its "free box". https://www.peoplespark.org/wp/free-clothing-box/ Might be a less encumbered term than "givebox" given the trademark issue Paul raises. Eric On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jmapb via Tagging wrote: > On 1/6/2020 5:41