Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Kitchen hours

2012-02-09 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Daniel Herding wrote: > Hallo everyone! > There are many restaurants etc. that close their kitchen early in the > evening. Afterwards, you can no longer order hot food, only drinks and cold > snacks. Similarly, at some restaurants the kitchen opens at noon, but yo

Re: [Tagging] man_made

2012-02-19 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Amanda wrote: > hello! > new here. don't know if it's the right place to address this issue, sorry if > i'm mistaken.. > my suggestion is: MAN MADE should be called HUMAN MADE I think in this context, the reference to MAN is referring to the human individual as re

[Tagging] Ways that change names while crossing divided roadways

2010-04-24 Thread Tyler Gunn
I installed the Garmin OSM map for my area and have been using it while I drive around locally. The one thing I've noticed is that there is a lot of inconsistency in how streets that cross divided roadways are named. For example: http://osm.org/go/Wpz_F8RFl- Note Sunset Blvd on the left and Cry

[Tagging] Relation for addresses far from the street

2010-05-01 Thread Tyler Gunn
I'm slowly filling in the local "mega-retail complex" near me: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.82432&lon=-97.20558&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF Its a pretty large area, and there are a load of businesses and shops within the area. All of the roads in the area are for the commercial development onl

Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:55:10 +0200, Pieren wrote: > What inevitable ?. I think that drawing sidewalks is silly and waste of > time. Let say that 99.99% of the unclassified and residential roads can be > walked on both sides, why should we draw the sidewalks everywhere ? It > would > be more clever

Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-05 Thread Tyler Gunn
> +1. Micromapping may be "on the rise", but that doesn't mean it's > necessarily a good thing. I'd still like to see a means of specifying, on > administrative boundaries, tags that are to be assumed (inherited) by > contained objects (e.g. sidewalk=yes, surface=paved, lanes=2, maxspeed=25 >

Re: [Tagging] Cleaning up

2010-05-06 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Thu, 6 May 2010 12:37:10 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > +1, nice. > cheers, > Martin It definitely shows how incredibly pedestrian-unfriendly these big suburban box store "malls" are. There are buildings in a sea of parking lots. Lol. Tyler ___ Tag

[Tagging] Parking for businesses..

2010-05-17 Thread Tyler Gunn
I was using the OSM maps for my city on my Garmin recently and when I listed the "parking" POIs I noticed a whole slew of parking showing up in there; mainly "unnamed".. It got me thinking why those are in there but then it dawned on me that in my area I've started adding in the parking lots and

Re: [Tagging] Parking for businesses..

2010-05-17 Thread Tyler Gunn
> From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Parking: > "The distinction between public parking lots, customer parking lots > (such as at cinemas etc.), and private parking lots (such as for staff > in a business park) is handled with access=* tags." > To me, reading that directly that would seem to

Re: [Tagging] Parking for businesses..

2010-05-18 Thread Tyler Gunn
> I was thinking access=destination although then you need to link the > parking lot to the destination, although you probably would for > access=customer as well since you might need to know where to spend > money, or window shop, to be considered a customer. I like this; access=destination defi

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-19 Thread Tyler Gunn
> Access=private works fine, then (along with access=public > andaccess=permissive).  Preferably with an additional tag (or relation) > withsome indication of who is allowed to park there. > Maybe access=customer isn't needed after all. How about something like: access=private permitted=patron/pe

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-20 Thread Tyler Gunn
> Agreed, although the situations in which it's not so clear are the ones > where OSM could really get an advantage over the competition. So many > times > I'm directed by Google Maps to a location quite a distance away from the > parking lot I'm trying to get to. It's especially annoying when t

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-20 Thread Tyler Gunn
> Rather than permitted=*, why not use parking_use=*? That would then be > consistent with your proposed relation. Though "permitted" is more > general and might be able to be generalised to other features... Or perhaps something like "permitted_parkers"; I don't think there's anything wrong with

Re: [Tagging] ID Permanence

2010-06-03 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:47:14 +1000, John Smith wrote: > I've penned some initial thoughts on what to do about Object ID Permanence > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/UUID Hi John, Being a programmer I understand what a UUID is and have used them many times. I am, however, cur

[Tagging] Tagging individual properties?

2010-08-19 Thread Tyler Gunn
roach of just marking the landuse using this data is sufficient. Opinions? Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Tagging individual properties?

2010-08-19 Thread Tyler Gunn
> A way to do this would be to map any fence lines marking the boundaries. That's a possibility. Though I have no way to be sure where the fences extend to in the front half of the properties. Probably not worth it now that I think of it. > Have you checked it for accuracy? The DCDBLite data

Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction

2010-09-01 Thread Tyler Gunn
> Why shouldn't it? Probably depends on the situation, but if the occur > on an object that we generally tag with waterway, it should be clear. > This technique was already used in ancient Rome for special parts of > aqueducts (where they had to bypass an obstacle). Aren't they a kind > of culvert

[Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-24 Thread Tyler Gunn
etmap.org/browse/relation/1438875 Here you can see that the neighborhood label renders much smaller http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.81031&lon=-97.16204&zoom=15&layers=M I'm inclined to think that example Two is more correct, but I have to say I like the larger more prominent labels of Exam

Re: [Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-25 Thread Tyler Gunn
are civic recognized sub-areas and neighbourhoods of my city, often times with varying land uses within. I don't think the landuse=* is appropriate. I see how the example you're shown works though; I can just see it getting ugly as you can't characterize the landuse of an entire sec

Re: [Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

2011-02-26 Thread Tyler Gunn
things too. Ultimately for display purposes it's one thing, but I'd like these relations/boundaries to be useful and unambiguous when it comes to determining where a particular location is. Thanks, Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com http://www.egunn.com/

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - daycare

2011-04-21 Thread Tyler Gunn
You say: "A place for children to do homework, play and spend time otherwise after school." The "after school" part is inaccurate as day care centers are often a place children go to during the day while their parents work. Some other considerations: - Type: - centers: larger in size, with multi