[Tagging] Relations without type?

2009-10-29 Thread wynndale
The NaPTAN data import is creating a lot of relations tagged public_transport=stop_place without a type key. Keep Right complains about the relations because the type key is missing, and these are a high proportion of Keep Right messages in London, which makes the validator more difficult to use. I

[Tagging] Why using place=city for legal status is a bad idea

2009-12-27 Thread wynndale
A sentence was recently added to the wiki [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place] stating that the tag place=city should be used for legally defined cities in countries where such a status exists. This is superficially attractive but it gives rise to problems. The key issue is that place nam