Re: [Tagging] governmental / public_administrative landuse are not commercial

2014-11-06 Thread Colin Smale
I would not expect the landuse value of the municipal bus company's HQ to change if the bus company was privatised... Only the ownership will have changed, nothing else. Actually, as the buildings are probably leased from a property company anyway, even that would stay the same. Just the shareho

Re: [Tagging] governmental / public_administrative landuse are not commercial

2014-11-06 Thread Marc Gemis
My question was indeed for their offices (head-quarters etc.) regards m On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 7:54 AM, John Willis wrote: > That is an interesting question. I think that falls outside the goal of > this tag but I am unsure. In America, Amtrak is nationalized, but I think > most of their facil

Re: [Tagging] governmental / public_administrative landuse are not commercial

2014-11-06 Thread John Willis
That is an interesting question. I think that falls outside the goal of this tag but I am unsure. In America, Amtrak is nationalized, but I think most of their facilities would fall under transportation related things - railway stations, etc. but their main office, which is not a train station,

Re: [Tagging] governmental / public_administrative landuse are not commercial

2014-11-06 Thread Marc Gemis
What about buildings of public transport companies (bus, train, airplane) that are owned and operated by the government. I assume they should be added to the "civic" part ? I know more and more countries are turning those companies into privately owned, but there are probably countries where this

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Water tap

2014-11-06 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Also keep in mind. When camping, water availability is highly relevant. The most relevant cases seem to be: - potable drinking water is available - water is available, but the authorities recommend filtering or treating it. Such water may or may not come from a tap. - water is *not a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Water tap

2014-11-06 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2014-10-10 19:13 GMT+02:00 sabas88 : > >> I use >> amenity=drinking_water + drinkable=no >> > > I agree with your own judgement that this is nonesense ;-) > IMHO we shouldn't tag like this. > > This is not really comparable to entran

Re: [Tagging] governmental / public_administrative landuse are not commercial

2014-11-06 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To help us making up our minds which tag to prefer, or to check if we should use two of them, I have started a table of use cases that would suit one ore the other tag class better, and started with some examples, on the Talk page. Tom Pfeifer wrote on 2014-11-05 11:21: Matthijs Melissen wrote o

Re: [Tagging] place=island wiki page - coastline

2014-11-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
The Caspian Sea, the Dead Sea, and the Great Salt Lake are all landlocked bodies of salt water. There are other salt lakes around the world, plus various brackish bodies of water (of an intermediate degree of saltiness). The Sea of Galilee is fresh water. Language is imprecise. On November 5,