Re: [Tagging] incline default unit ?

2013-08-13 Thread Philip Barnes
% is the value shown on signs, the highest I can remember seeing is 25%, will be on the lookout now. There may still be some older 1:4 (1 in 4) type signs around so maybe a unit is useful. Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 12/08/2013 22:13 André Pirard wrote: On 2013-08-12

[Tagging] office=kjuilmn ?

2013-08-13 Thread Pieren
During my updates of some wiki translations, I discovered the map featured tag office=it. When you asked yourself what means my message title office=kjuilmn, then you feel like an average contributor reading office=it for the first time. Here is our wiki about it:

Re: [Tagging] office=kjuilmn ?

2013-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 13/ago/2013, alle ore 14:28, Pieren pier...@gmail.com ha scritto: means we should really avoid abbreviations in main tags (sub-tags can be discussed). That's why I would like to change the wiki to e.g. office=information_technology and check (on talk list) if it can be changed in

[Tagging] Power poles tower : power vs man_made

2013-08-13 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, A long discussion with multiple ideas given is currently taking place about power poles and hosted features on the talk feed of the Substation refinement proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Substation_refinement#Transformer_type As explained in

Re: [Tagging] Power poles tower : power vs man_made

2013-08-13 Thread fly
Hey Francois +10 for deprecating power=tower/pole and tag them what they are: a tower or a pole. On 13.08.2013 16:31, François Lacombe wrote: A long discussion with multiple ideas given is currently taking place about power poles and hosted features on the talk feed of the Substation

Re: [Tagging] Power poles tower : power vs man_made

2013-08-13 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, François Lacombe Many tricks promote some extra tags like power=pole + transformer=distribution (power=transformer is here implicit) but they sound like tricks to me. It's not unusual in OSM. See shop=organicor shop=supermarket+organic=yes; See amenity=bar or

Re: [Tagging] Power poles tower : power vs man_made

2013-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 13/ago/2013, alle ore 16:31, François Lacombe francois.laco...@telecom-bretagne.eu ha scritto: Another possibility would be to deprecate power=pole and power=tower and use man_made=pole and man_made=tower+tower:type=power It would allow us to have nodes with man_made=pole +

Re: [Tagging] Power poles tower : power vs man_made

2013-08-13 Thread Chris Hill
I would prefer that you didn't pretend we will deprecate a tag so widely used just so a small proportion of them can have another power tag on it when we can easily just add transformer=yes or something similar. Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno 13/ago/2013, alle ore

Re: [Tagging] Power poles tower : power vs man_made

2013-08-13 Thread Andreas Labres
power=tower ... 4'667'869 power=pole . 1'144'985 Looks established. It makes no sense (and there is IMHO no need) to change these. /al ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] office=kjuilmn ?

2013-08-13 Thread Volker Schmidt
There is another frequently used value in the same category: office=ngo Want to change that as well? I am unsure how strict we should be in this no-abbrevation business For me it seems OK as is. On 13 August 2013 15:26, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno 13/ago/2013,

[Tagging] Re : office=kjuilmn ?

2013-08-13 Thread yve...@gmail.com
Thing is, abbreviations lost their meaning when in lower-case. Yves ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-13 Thread Phil! Gold
* Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at [2013-08-09 07:28 +0200]: I also dislike the suggested special member roles: The positioning of the label depends on the font size, the free space, the map section and zoom level etc. and should therefore be determined by the renderer. I tend to think of

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of topographic areas with a name

2013-08-13 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: I tend to think of label nodes as hints for the renderer that provide it with information it cannot derive on its own. The canonical example, I think, is a town where it makes sense to place the label over the town center,