[Tagging] fire_hydrant extensions proposal

2013-03-09 Thread Richard Welty
i've started drafting a proposal for some tags to extend the fire_hydrant tagging system. i have a question for the non-US mappers... in the US, the American Water Works Association has a classification system dividing hydrants into 4 groups based on their flow capacity (e.g., class AA is outp

Re: [Tagging] fire_hydrant extensions proposal

2013-03-09 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, Richard Welty wrote: > for the US, water mains are specified in inches. i presume that centimeter is > the correct > unit elsewhere. correct? In Finland, mm is used in all signs. I've not seen other classifications here besides the diameter. Then we only have only "O" marking

Re: [Tagging] fire_hydrant extensions proposal

2013-03-09 Thread Chris Hill
On 09/03/13 19:07, Richard Welty wrote: i've started drafting a proposal for some tags to extend the fire_hydrant tagging system. i have a question for the non-US mappers... in the US, the American Water Works Association has a classification system dividing hydrants into 4 groups based on the

Re: [Tagging] fire_hydrant extensions proposal

2013-03-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 14:07 -0500, Richard Welty wrote: > i've started drafting a proposal for some tags to extend the > fire_hydrant tagging system. > i have a question for the non-US mappers... In the UK, fire hydrants are not the prominent feature they are in the US and Canada. Here they are m

Re: [Tagging] fire_hydrant extensions proposal

2013-03-09 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/9/13 2:30 PM, Philip Barnes wrote: On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 14:07 -0500, Richard Welty wrote: i've started drafting a proposal for some tags to extend the fire_hydrant tagging system. i have a question for the non-US mappers... The fire brigade will know exactly where they are. one of the mot