[Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-02 Thread James Livingston
Hi all, Because we were having *so* much fun repeating the footway-cycleway-path debate again, here's another related question: what does bicycle=no actually mean, no bicycles or no cycling? Last night I asked on IRC whether anyone know how to tag a "Cyclists must dismount" sign, and would bic

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-03 Thread James Livingston
On 03/12/2009, at 8:06 PM, Richard Mann wrote: > On public land you can usually push a bike and be treated as a pedestrian, > but that's not always the case on private land (eg the University Parks in > Oxford) - bicycles are banned altogether. Most of the time when I've seen those signs it has

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-05 Thread James Livingston
On 05/12/2009, at 4:14 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Matthias Julius wrote: > I guess it is implied that when you are not allowed to carry a bike > you are not allowed to ride it neither. > > True, but when I tag bicycle=no, I don't intend to imply anything about > wheth

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-05 Thread James Livingston
On 06/12/2009, at 5:17 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2009/12/6 James Livingston : >> I'd hope that bicycle=no would have the same implications for having a >> bicycle without riding it as other *=no tags would for their transports. For >> example I would guess that where h

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-10 Thread James Livingston
On 09/12/2009, at 3:30 AM, Mike Harris wrote: > Personally - and I'm probably wrong! - I had always thought that foot / > bicycle = yes / no etc. did not say anything one way or the other about > formal legal status (hence leaving this to designation= ) but merely whether > the evidence on the

Re: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledge of the law?

2009-12-11 Thread James Livingston
On 11/12/2009, at 5:44 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: > The current wiki definition of highway=cycleway is "mainly or > exclusively for bicycles". This I cannot be sure of from the aerial > imagery, nor can I of anything to do with the law. What to do... Ah, the curse of NearMap being too good. The curre

Re: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledge of the law?

2009-12-11 Thread James Livingston
On 12/12/2009, at 7:47 AM, Roy Wallace wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:02 PM, James Livingston wrote: >> >> The current solution I've seen near Brisbane is "do whatever you prefer", >> which is why several paths flip back and forwards between footway and

Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-21 Thread James Livingston
On 20/01/2010, at 6:44 PM, Peter Childs wrote: > Cafe, Bar, Pub etc. > > The line is weather it sells Beer, or other Alcoholic Beverages, As another data point, here's what I define them as in Australia - not guaranteed to be the same as other .au definitions: Restaurant - Place to go and get a

Re: [Tagging] Bridges and layers

2010-07-28 Thread James Livingston
On 28/07/2010, at 1:13 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I think that there is definitely space for a bridge-relation to deal with all > these informations and bring them together. An alternative might be to > draw an (additional) polygon for the bridge area in projection (with > common nodes on the

Re: [Tagging] tag groupings

2010-07-30 Thread James Livingston
On 31/07/2010, at 11:07 AM, John Smith wrote: > Maybe we should stop using words for key pair values and just come up > with a database that issues ID numbers, half the problems with the > current scheme is due to people treating enumerated key pairs in the > same way they are used to using english

Re: [Tagging] Non Proposed Features

2010-08-19 Thread James Livingston
On 17/08/2010, at 2:09 AM, Matthias Meißer wrote: > Yes soft moderation by the community but therefore the community needs some > central space and some guidelines. You already see the lack of voters, just > cause it's to decentral communication atm. It's also because some people (myself include

Re: [Tagging] sneaking in tags in the wiki

2010-09-16 Thread James Livingston
On 16/09/2010, at 6:57 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > It does seem, however, that it would seem to make more sense to either have > separate nodes for each of the possible directions, or have some other way of > signifying which direction or directions the stop sign applies to. There's five or te