Re: [Tagging] landuse=grass => natural=grass

2014-09-17 Thread Andreas Labres
On 18.09.14 00:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > from landuse, meadow would imply grass for me Meadow IMO means there is some usage taken from the grass/hay (Weide, Futterwiese,...). I use landuse=grass in urban areas (Grünstreifen am Straßenrand), for grass areas that are not a garden but there u

Re: [Tagging] Personal Keys for WikiProject, Survey Data for Import

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Rollin
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > That is really poor idea. IMHO remembering location and object type should > be enough to identify it. > OK, I'm game: let us say it is a node with an amenity and name tag attached. Let us also say that the positioning is absolutely

Re: [Tagging] landuse=grass => natural=grass

2014-09-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Il giorno 18/set/2014, alle ore 07:57, Friedrich Volkmann ha > scritto: > > Say, how does landcover=grass differ > from surface=grass? I agree that in this case it doesn't make a difference, besides that surface is typically used as an attribute for highways and not as a feature on its ow

Re: [Tagging] landuse=grass => natural=grass

2014-09-17 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 18.09.2014 01:01, Dave F. wrote: > On 17/09/2014 22:44, Daniel Koć wrote: >> We (in Polish forum) think, that changing landuse=grass into natural=grass >> would make better tagging scheme, since grass is seldom a "landuse" (like >> the tree is natural=tree, not the amenity or something else). H

Re: [Tagging] Personal Keys for WikiProject, Survey Data for Import

2014-09-17 Thread Marc Gemis
The answers you will receive will fall in the following categories - it's OK to use the ID you propose. - OSM is not an storages for external IDs, the external DB should link to OSM objects - use wikipedia / wikidata links and no agreement will be reached :-) But that's OSM. regards m On Thu,

Re: [Tagging] Personal Keys for WikiProject, Survey Data for Import

2014-09-17 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
That is really poor idea. IMHO remembering location and object type should be enough to identify it. 2014-09-18 1:43 GMT+02:00 Alex Rollin : > Hello, > > We are surveying for local points of interest. > > We need to store an ID for these objects to keep track of them. I think > this is called a "

[Tagging] Personal Keys for WikiProject, Survey Data for Import

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Rollin
Hello, We are surveying for local points of interest. We need to store an ID for these objects to keep track of them. I think this is called a "personal key"? Something like indonesiaheritage:ID=231892312 Is that the acceptable format for such a thing? We will then publish a page on the wiki a

Re: [Tagging] landuse=grass => natural=grass

2014-09-17 Thread Dave F.
On 17/09/2014 22:44, Daniel Koć wrote: Hello, We (in Polish forum) think, that changing landuse=grass into natural=grass would make better tagging scheme, since grass is seldom a "landuse" (like the tree is natural=tree, not the amenity or something else). How do you find this idea? 1. I

Re: [Tagging] What's the difference in these tags?

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Similar (albeit same direction) examples would be I 635 HOV in Dallas or US 75 HOV leading north from I 635. On Sep 17, 2014 2:30 AM, "Mateusz Konieczny" wrote: > Mapping contraflow lane as dual carriageway is a really poor idea. It is > OK only for physically separated lane. > > 2014-09-17 1:59

Re: [Tagging] landuse=grass => natural=grass

2014-09-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Il giorno 17/set/2014, alle ore 23:44, Daniel Koć ha scritto: > > We (in Polish forum) think, that changing landuse=grass into natural=grass > would make better tagging scheme, since grass is seldom a "landuse" from landuse, meadow would imply grass for me natural is mostly describing a

[Tagging] landuse=grass => natural=grass

2014-09-17 Thread Daniel Koć
Hello, We (in Polish forum) think, that changing landuse=grass into natural=grass would make better tagging scheme, since grass is seldom a "landuse" (like the tree is natural=tree, not the amenity or something else). How do you find this idea? -- Mambałaga _

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named

2014-09-17 Thread fly
So far, highway=traffic_signal is only defined for nodes and there are only few ways and fewer relations. Also in favour of separation I would prefer to use junction=* with name=* and only highway=traffic_signal with name if it is only a single light (e.g. the case with a named junction and differ

Re: [Tagging] How to tag a landmark clock

2014-09-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-09-17 10:12 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt : > Incidentally, this is a similar clock tower in Chile: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1905022230 > > (it's not rendered on Mapnik) btw.: shouldn't this be "analogue" rather than the American version "analog"? I have opened an issue here: http:

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named

2014-09-17 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote: > For the junction! > > For a named junction with a (not named) traffic signal: junction=yes + > highway=traffic_signals. (Quite common on Korea – on the ground, not in the > database.) Ok, I improved the wiki about this :http://wiki.openstree

Re: [Tagging] How to tag a landmark clock

2014-09-17 Thread Volker Schmidt
Incidentally, this is a similar clock tower in Chile: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1905022230 (it's not rendered on Mapnik) On 16 September 2014 23:11, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Andy Mabbett wrote on 2014-09-16 22:10: > >> How should this clock: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber

Re: [Tagging] What's the difference in these tags?

2014-09-17 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
Mapping contraflow lane as dual carriageway is a really poor idea. It is OK only for physically separated lane. 2014-09-17 1:59 GMT+02:00 Bryce Nesbitt : > I map contraflow as dual carriageway, to avoid this issue. > Both sides get oneway=yes, plus a full list of the modes allowed (psv, > bicycle