Re: [Tagging] Usefulness of bicycle=dismount on ways

2013-10-14 Thread Stephen Gower
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:53:04AM +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > > and [Neither cycling nor pushing allowed] would be an area/route > explicitly signed as e.g. "no bicycles not even pushed" (Oxford > University Parks used to be like this until a couple of years ago). Just for the

Re: [Tagging] courtyards

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen Gower
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 11:14:17PM +0100, Friedrich Volkmann wrote: > Courtyards use to be mapped as "inner" members of building multipolygons. We > can also use the multipolygon relation to assign a name to the bullding. If > we want to assign a name to the courtyard, we must assign it to the way.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - playground:splash_pad

2011-07-20 Thread Stephen Gower
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 01:12:19PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (lists) wrote: > > I'm a native en_GB speaker, and "splash pad" sounds unambiguous to me > and not particularly an Americanism. "Water play area" sounds ambiguous > and like it's a more widely scoped thing. The term in my en_GB family come

Re: [Tagging] non-trivial color schemes

2012-12-20 Thread Stephen Gower
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:58:45AM -0500, Richard Welty wrote: > there). i looked at a couple of dry hydrants yesterday and guess > what - red & white stripes. blazon=barry gules and argent http://heralds.westkingdom.org/Templates/Fields/index.htm (I'm not serious) s __

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-07 Thread Stephen Gower
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:21:33PM -0500, Anthony wrote: > > What does "no bicycles" mean? Can you show a picture of a sign which > means you aren't allowed to carry a bicycle through this area? It's already been mentioned lower down in the thread, but Oxford University's Parks: http://oxford.cy

Re: [Tagging] bicycle=no

2009-12-07 Thread Stephen Gower
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:44:42AM -0500, Anthony wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Stephen Gower earth.li> wrote: > > > Christ Church (College) Meadows: > > http://oxford.cyclestreets.net/location/17860/ "No Bicycles either wheeled > > or ridden"

Re: [Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

2010-05-04 Thread Stephen Gower
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 02:08:01PM +0100, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > > In the UK a "fish shop" can be one of two, three > usually mutually exclusive, things: > > * A fishmonger, selling wet (i.e. raw) fish and seafood > * A Fish and Chip shop, selling cooked fast food * A shop selling live fish