Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread Sebastian Klein
Michael Barabanov wrote: Seems like double work to me. Ross's suggestion may just work. If there're no objections, I'll update the wiki. Please not, this is a crude hack. Why not use the opening_hours syntax? This should be standard. hours=6:00-9:00,15:00-19:00 Sebastian ___

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Tom Chance
On 16 August 2010 21:08, André Riedel wrote: > 2010/8/16 Tom Chance : > > Basically I have deprecated "power_type=photovoltaic" and > > "power_type=solar-thermal", which combine two bits of information (source > of > > energy, and type of energy generated). This also allows for adequate > tagging

Re: [Tagging] Non Proposed Features

2010-08-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Cartinus wrote: > Concluding less than six hours after your initial post to this mailinglist > that nobody has a problem with what you propose is: youthfull exuberance ? > impatience ? It is certainly is not the way to go. 6 hours isn't one rotation of the earth, and certainl

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 August 2010 17:44, Sebastian Klein wrote: > Michael Barabanov wrote: >> >> Seems like double work to me. Ross's suggestion may just work. If >> there're no objections, I'll update the wiki. > > Please not, this is a crude hack. Why not use the opening_hours syntax? This > should be standar

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:21 +1000 John Smith wrote: > On 17 August 2010 17:44, Sebastian Klein wrote: > > Michael Barabanov wrote: > >> > >> Seems like double work to me. Ross's suggestion may just work. If > >> there're no objections, I'll update the wiki. > > > > Please not, this is a crude

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread Sebastian Klein
John Smith wrote: On 17 August 2010 17:44, Sebastian Klein wrote: Michael Barabanov wrote: Seems like double work to me. Ross's suggestion may just work. If there're no objections, I'll update the wiki. Please not, this is a crude hack. Why not use the opening_hours syntax? This should be s

Re: [Tagging] tagging farmers markets?

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 Craig Wallace : > Though from what you describe, it sounds more like its just one shop - ie > all operated by the same company, and with just one set of checkouts etc - > but just calling itself a "farmers market"? > In which case, I would suggest tagging it as shop=greengrocer (if its mo

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread Sebastian Klein
Ross Scanlon wrote: And also a semi-colon ; between the times as per the rest of multiple values for one key. No, quoting [1]: > a break on days separated by "," · ( e.g.> Mo,We,Fr ) a break on hours separated by "," · ( e.g.> 08:30-14:00,16:30-20:00 ) different hours on different days

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 Michael Barabanov : > Seems like double work to me.  Ross's suggestion may just work.  If there're > no objections, I'll update the wiki. There is already a proposal for this kind of stuff, which would be possible to apply here as well: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_featur

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 August 2010 18:52, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/8/17 Michael Barabanov : >> Seems like double work to me. Ross's suggestion may just work. If there're >> no objections, I'll update the wiki. > > > There is already a proposal for this kind of stuff, which would be > possible to apply h

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Tom Chance
Following discussion here and on the wiki I have changed "power_type" to "power_output": http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/power_type I have also introduced a new tag proposal, "power_method": http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/power_method This resolves ambig

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Tom Chance
Just to help summarise, with these proposals we end up with: power=generator (the starting point) power_rating (to specify the watts generated) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power_rating power_source (to specify the fuel type / energy source) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Tom Chance wrote: > Just to help summarise, with these proposals we end up with: > > power=generator (the starting point) > > power_rating (to specify the watts generated) > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power_rating > > power_source (to specify the fuel type / ener

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 17/08/2010 12:59, Tom Chance wrote: Just to help summarise, with these proposals we end up with: power=generator (the starting point) power_rating (to specify the watts generated) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power_rating power_source (to specify the fuel type / energy source) htt

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 17/08/2010 05:29, John Smith wrote: On 17 August 2010 13:14, Michael Barabanov wrote: I agree. But I'm not in the mood to start a voting process on changing hour_on to access:time. We keep getting told this is a do-ocracy, so if you find something more useful, just do it? :)

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 John Smith : > You were the one complaining about amenity=school being widely used so > we should sub-tag it, I don't think we should do any of the above for > similar reasons, leave the restriction stuff alone and dump > dates/times into their own key pair. > > restriction=no_right_turn

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Tom Chance
On 17 August 2010 12:12, Liz wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Tom Chance wrote: > > Just to help summarise, with these proposals we end up with: > > > > power=generator (the starting point) > > > > power_rating (to specify the watts generated) > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power_rating

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Tom Chance
On 17 August 2010 12:56, Vincent Pottier wrote: > On 17/08/2010 12:59, Tom Chance wrote: > >> Just to help summarise, with these proposals we end up with: >> >> power=generator (the starting point) >> >> power_rating (to specify the watts generated) >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 August 2010 22:27, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > If a restriction is valid only for some time, I would like to see this > in one tag and not in 2 for several reasons: I think you are over engineering, in any case my previous point still stands, there is no less than 3 completely different wa

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread Sebastian Klein
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/8/17 John Smith : You were the one complaining about amenity=school being widely used so we should sub-tag it, I don't think we should do any of the above for similar reasons, leave the restriction stuff alone and dump dates/times into their own key pair. restric

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 John Smith : > On 17 August 2010 23:44, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> Oops, so sorry, I wasn't aware that there is already a time syntax in >> the restrictions relation :( > > I your suggestion conflicts with the restriction=* values, so any > existing software may handle the extension s

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 Sebastian Klein : > I don't really like the Extended_conditions_for_access_tags proposal for > reasons mentioned in the above sites and their talk pages. Basically it > violates (or gives up) the principle that keys are simple atomic identifiers > that you can query without regexes and th

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 August 2010 23:58, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I'm pulling this back to the list, because otherwise it is not useful > for the rest of the comunity, and because I think that you don't mind. I mentioned to several posters that this should be on the tagging list. > amenity=school is widely

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 00:00, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/8/17 Sebastian Klein : >> I don't really like the Extended_conditions_for_access_tags proposal for >> reasons mentioned in the above sites and their talk pages. Basically it >> violates (or gives up) the principle that keys are simple atom

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 John Smith : > I'm not talking about hour_on, I'm talking specifically about your suggestion: > >> restriction=[6:00-9:00;15:00-18:00]only_right_turn > > Which breaks restriction=* IMHO it doesn't. It is justified that a restriction that is valid _only 6-9 or 15-18_ doesn't look the sam

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 00:03, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/8/17 John Smith : >> I'm not talking about hour_on, I'm talking specifically about your >> suggestion: >> >>> restriction=[6:00-9:00;15:00-18:00]only_right_turn >> >> Which breaks restriction=* > > > IMHO it doesn't. It is justified that

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 John Smith : > Your suggestion would require a regex, the time information should be > in it's own key to prevent this. I'm not a programmer but I think that some substring-parsing would be sufficient (do you mean this?). For the evaluation of the term you will in all cases need a rege

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 00:06, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I'm not a programmer but I think that some substring-parsing would be substring/regex is essentially the same end result. > sufficient (do you mean this?). For the evaluation of the term you > will in all cases need a regex (to see if the dat

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 John Smith : > On 18 August 2010 00:03, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> 2010/8/17 John Smith : >>> I'm not talking about hour_on, I'm talking specifically about your >>> suggestion: >>> restriction=[6:00-9:00;15:00-18:00]only_right_turn >>> >>> Which breaks restriction=* >> >> >> IMH

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 00:08, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > It is much more elegant on the other hand not to have to create > separate restrictions for all times, but deal in one restriction with > it. The more these things are in use, the more apps will be able to > understand them. Currently many apps

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread André Riedel
2010/8/17 Tom Chance : > Just to help summarise, with these proposals we end up with: > > power=generator (the starting point) Please do not mix the "power"-tag for generating electricity with other sources of energy like steam, vacuum, heat and so on. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 John Smith : > That's the point, if you are looking for a limited set of values you > can do a complete match, you don't need to try and do anything as > complex or resource intensive as a regular expression *UNLESS* you > know explicitly that key would need to be parsed in that manner, s

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
Why do you think no software parses keys with semi-colon seperated values? eg amenity=fuel;cafe Because it takes too many resources to search every amenity=* value for possible values with multiple tags, instead we tag them separate or some kind of sub-tag...

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/17 André Riedel : >> power=generator (the starting point) > > Please do not mix the "power"-tag for generating electricity with > other sources of energy like steam, vacuum, heat and so on. why not? Isn't that all power? cheers, Martin ___ Tagg

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Tom Chance
On 17 August 2010 15:25, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/8/17 André Riedel : > >> power=generator (the starting point) > > > > Please do not mix the "power"-tag for generating electricity with > > other sources of energy like steam, vacuum, heat and so on. > > why not? Isn't that all power? > >

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread Surly_ru
> >> amenity=school > >> school=dance > > -1, IMHO no. A dancing school, boxing school, ski school, etc. are > IMHO not in the same category than general-education schools. They > might be classified in one category, but that is IMHO not school. I agree!! The term "training" here is much more sui

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 01:06, Surly_ru wrote: > I agree!! The term "training" here is much more suitable than "school". > My recommendation is "amenity=training + training=dance". -1 The whole point of all the was to avoid adding any more amenity=* tags unnecessarily, it's already an overly abused du

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread Vladimir Pokvalitov
> > My recommendation is "amenity=training + training=dance". > > -1 > > The whole point of all the was to avoid adding any more amenity=* tags > unnecessarily OK! Let's discard "amenity". Only "training=dance" is good too. My suggestion is not about "amenity". It is about changing "school" to

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 01:15, Vladimir Pokvalitov wrote: > OK! Let's discard "amenity". Only "training=dance" is good too. > > My suggestion is not about "amenity". It is about changing "school" to > "training". Wouldn't that be a little counter initiative since they are called dance schools, driving

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread Surly_ru
> Wouldn't that be a little counter initiative since they are called > dance schools, driving school, etc ? These short-term training courses for adults are very different from educational schools for children, despite of their name. So let's don't mix them.

[Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I know that there are some bike lanes on the left side, but is there any real benefit to tagging cycleway:right=lane rather than cycleway=lane when you have a bike lane on the right side of a one-way street? How about on the right side of a dual carriageway? ___

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] National Forest trail numbering

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:03:17 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > For Forest Highways (generally major paved roads): ref=FH nn (e.g. > name=Angeles Crest Highway + ref=FH 61). For Forest Roads/Routes/Truck > Trails: ref=FR yDxx (e.g. name=Upper Monroe Road + ref=FR 2N16) > For Forest Trails: ref=FT yDxx (e.

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] National Forest trail numbering

2010-08-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:03:17 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > >> For Forest Highways (generally major paved roads): ref=FH nn (e.g. >> name=Angeles Crest Highway + ref=FH 61). For Forest Roads/Routes/Truck >> Trails: ref=FR yDxx (e.g. name=Upper Mon

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] National Forest trail numbering

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-17 02:19, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:03:17 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > For Forest Highways (generally major paved roads): ref=FH nn (e.g. > name=Angeles Crest Highway + ref=FH 61). For Forest Roads/Routes/Truck > Trails: ref=FR yDxx (e.g. name=Upper Monroe Road + ref=FR

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Tom Chance wrote: > > I note that too many tags are one-offs with no consideration of where > > they fit > > in an organised set of tags. > > I've no idea what you mean. Could you explain? Example "I need a tag for this item I'm standing next to. I'll call it amenity="

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Energy generator power types

2010-08-17 Thread Liz
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, André Riedel wrote: > Please do not mix the "power"-tag for generating electricity with > other sources of energy like steam, vacuum, heat and so on. could you please explain what the problem will be if this tag "power" is extended as proposed? __

Re: [Tagging] Is cycleway:right=lane necessary on a one-way street?

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-17 12:08, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I know that there are some bike lanes on the left side, but is there any real benefit to tagging cycleway:right=lane rather than cycleway=lane when you have a bike lane on the right side of a one-way street? Assuming you meant to add "in a place wher

Re: [Tagging] turn restrictions, multiple time intervals

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-16 18:30, Michael Barabanov wrote: How would one tag a turn restriction (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Turn_restrictions) which is active say 6-9AM and 3-6PM every day? hour_on/hour_off seem to only be  sufficient for one time interval. Currently, I use: hour_on=06:00;15:00 hour_o

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread Vincent Pottier
On 17/08/2010 17:28, Surly_ru wrote: Wouldn't that be a little counter initiative since they are called dance schools, driving school, etc ? These short-term training courses for adults are very different from educational schools for children, despite of their name. So let's don't mix them

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread Andreas Labres
On 17.08.10 17:11, John Smith wrote: > The whole point of all the was to avoid adding any more amenity=* tags > unnecessarily, it's already an overly abused dumping ground and makes > it difficult for doing generic icons for POIs... I can't follow your argument here. A dancing school (or is ist c

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 01:28, Surly_ru wrote: >> Wouldn't that be a little counter initiative since they are called >> dance schools, driving school, etc ? > > These short-term training courses for adults are very different from > educational schools for children, despite of their name. So let's don't

Re: [Tagging] Dancing school

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 08:25, Andreas Labres wrote: > I can't follow your argument here. A dancing school (or is ist called dance > school? in which part of the English world?) is an amenity, is it not? The term amenity, if used in the vaguest form, can almost mean anything. > And you do want a gener

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] proposal: rental=*

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 07:19, Alan Mintz wrote: > NAFAIK, if I understand you correctly. That's what semi-colons are for. In Which nothing seems to bother to parse... OSM data is already computationally expensive just parsing simple key pairs... ___ Tagging

Re: [Tagging] Tagging for streets with sharrows?

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Bennett
> Incorrect.  A sharrow is used on a designated bicycle route [in Paul Johnson's part of the world] > to indicate what part of a shared lane bicyclists should use > [Stephen Hope] has never >seen them anywhere except on a route Let's make an effort to keep tagging schemes globally applicable, and

Re: [Tagging] Vacant shop tagging...

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:30 AM, John Smith wrote: > I'm not sure this is the best way to do things, what do others think? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:shop&oldid=517645&diff=next I think I'd prefer shop=no personally, in an effort to reduce all the sy

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] proposal: rental=*

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 11:41, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:30 PM, John Smith wrote: >> shop=rental >> rental:car=yes/no >> rental:bike=yes/no >> rental:truck=yes/no >> rental:van=yes/no >> rental:bus=yes/no > > I don't like this because this: > > shop=rental Which is why I added a

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] proposal: rental=*

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Smith wrote: > Which is why I added a bunch of tags after describing what it does rent... Which only a few diehards are ever going to tag. Ease of use for taggers is a major consideration. More tags=more powerful information, but less usability. > >> means

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] National Forest trail numbering

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:44:58 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2010-08-17 02:19, Paul Johnson wrote: >>On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:03:17 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: >> >> > For Forest Highways (generally major paved roads): ref=FH nn (e.g. >> > name=Angeles Crest Highway + ref=FH 61). For Forest >> > Roads/Ro

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] proposal: rental=*

2010-08-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 August 2010 12:04, Steve Bennett wrote: > Which only a few diehards are ever going to tag. Ease of use for > taggers is a major consideration. More tags=more powerful information, > but less usability. There is a lot of amenity=fast_food places tagged, I wonder how many tag the cuisine prop

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] National Forest trail numbering

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-17 14:33, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:44:58 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2010-08-17 02:19, Paul Johnson wrote: >>On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:03:17 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: >> >> > For Forest Highways (generally major paved roads): ref=FH nn (e.g. >> > name=Angeles Crest Hig

Re: [Tagging] Tagging for streets with sharrows?

2010-08-17 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > Any arguments against cycleway=sharrow? Yes, a cycleway should be mainly/exclusively for bicycles. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/taggin

Re: [Tagging] Tagging for streets with sharrows?

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: >> Any arguments against cycleway=sharrow? > > Yes, a cycleway should be mainly/exclusively for bicycles. Hmm, I guess we're interpreting "cycleway=x" differently. You: "This is a cycleway, m

Re: [Tagging] Tagging for streets with sharrows?

2010-08-17 Thread Simon Biber
In established practise, cycleway=lane means "this way is a road which has a bicycle lane" not "this way is mainly for bicycles". However I see the point that the lane _itself_ is generally mainly for bicycles. We don't have the chevron arrows in Australia but we do have bicycle symbols painted

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] National Forest trail numbering

2010-08-17 Thread Samat K Jain
On Tuesday, August 17, 2010 08:55:48 pm, Alan Mintz wrote: > As I said somewhere earlier, this seems to vary by region and forest. The > tagging I mentioned is used in all southern and central California > USFS-oversight forests and the ones I was able to quickly check just now in > northern CA.