Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-11 Thread Alex L. Mauer
Gustav Foseid wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de mailto:o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Those eight people can only do this if not even 0.1% of the other 1 care enough to oppose the proposal. If that's the case, then apparently the proposal

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Thread Alex L. Mauer
Liz wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Alex Mauer wrote: Not sure how you think path was forced though. It had 34 votes, 22 for and 9 against (3 abstain). Nobody forced anything, we just used the standard procedure. while this was the sort of number of votes that appear on the wiki, for a

Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

2009-08-10 Thread Alex L. Mauer
John Smith wrote: Forced is probably the wrong word, gamed the system is what I would have said. The system was used exactly as it was intended. It's not my fault if few people choose to participate. If there is over 100,000 accounts and at least 1% of them actively map and have actively

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Road crossings proposal - status?

2008-05-08 Thread Alex L. Mauer
Steve Hill wrote: It seems to me that instead of referring to a crossing by name, we should just list its properties. e.g. something like: highway=crossing crossing=uncontrolled|traffic_signals island=yes|no bicycle=yes|no foot=yes|no horse=yes|no +1. This is almost exactly what the

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

2008-04-20 Thread Alex L. Mauer
Jeffrey Martin wrote: I think free tagging is great, but we should not allow multiple definitions for each tag. A tag should not indicate both it's legal status and it's structure, although one might imply the other under certain circumstances. Well, that's an unfortunate fact of the

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC: railway=incline

2008-03-26 Thread Alex L. Mauer
Sven Geggus wrote: Cartinus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you don't have to suggest this now. ;) Proposals for both already existed in the wiki before Hawke wrote the railway=incline proposal. So let us break down the different suggestions and go on vor vote now? As far as I can