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

2010-09-27 Thread Mike N.
Why changing an old and widely used "amenity=restaurant"+"cuisine" ? +1 Although I agree that the current amenity=restaurant, fast_food...etc. is a bit awkward, it is nearly unthinkable that it should be changed because of the number of people who are already using and rendering the data.

Re: [Tagging] shop=wedding_office [Was: New tag value: shop=wedding]

2010-09-28 Thread Mike N.
office=wedding_planner sounds fine to me. I agree with this. However, I have also seen a number of local shops which sell only wedding supplies (dresses, etc) but offer no wedding services. They could probably be reclassified as shop=clothes however. __

Re: [Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

2010-10-22 Thread Mike N.
please no new highway, path/footway is already a very controversial tag. Yes, and it could become a little clearer when there is different tags for a 3 m wide and paved "path" and a 0.3 m wide and unpaved and unmaintained "path". We have x road classes and just one for ways that are not roads (

Re: [Tagging] How to tag a (main) entrance to a large feature?

2010-11-18 Thread Mike N.
I don't know if it's legal to park here and walk around the gate into the park, but assume for the sake of argument that it is. How do we tell the router to instead use the main entrance to the south? In this case, the way in the photo can be properly tagged as a service/driveway and /or trac

Re: [Tagging] How to tag a (main) entrance to a large feature?

2010-11-18 Thread Mike N.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/entrance That however doesn't help in a case where a public road cuts through the park. How do we indicate that a specific entrance road is the correct one to use to enter the park by car if you want to spend time walking in the park? Be

Re: [Tagging] Thoughts on how to replace or modify an exist/established tag (Was: Feature Proposal - RFC - sluice_gate)

2011-01-05 Thread Mike N.
2) Post to the talk list asking for feedback/discussion 3) About 2 weeks after the last discussion/modifications to the proposal you post a vote request to both the tagging and the talk lists It would be nice to have a list that "map data consumers" could subscribe to that we could poll to ver

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

2011-03-21 Thread Mike N
On 3/21/2011 3:50 PM, Chris Hill wrote: There are, never have been and probably never will be official tags. Anyone can use any tag at any time for any purpose. It follows that there are no unofficial tags either. No disagreement, but the motivation for at least some measure of agreement on a

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-08 Thread Mike N
On 4/8/2011 4:05 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: What you refer to as "gym" sounds like what I'd call a "health club" or "fitness club". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_club Is it supposed to be tagged as sports centre? The wiki description makes me think a sports centre is a pretty large structu

Re: [Tagging] convention for multiple maxspeed values

2011-04-26 Thread Mike N
On 4/26/2011 8:06 AM, Richard Welty wrote: for reference purposes, this changed sometime last summer, so Dominik used to be right. The "xx mph" format has been there ever since I remember (2009). There was a mini edit war with someone trying to deprecate the "xx mph" format and make all ed

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