Re: [Tagging] how to tag a salt flat

2015-09-29 Thread joost schouppe
I don't think a landuse tag is sensible, as the salt flats I have in mind (look up some images of Salar de Uyuni to get an impression) are definitely not something human centered. However, it might be a good tag for some of the smaller areas where salt is actually harvested. The combination of na

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread John Willis
Directions, address, and spatial location are all 3 different things- and one may not help the other. Routing, lookup (and mailing), and the placement of pins / polygons cover these three different ideas. Routing to a pin may not correspond exactly to the mailing address, nor the explicit flo

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Warin
On 30/09/2015 9:43 AM, John Willis wrote: Javbw On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: But in some countries, the floor information is actually part of the address. Thats great, please tag it as such. I'm not saying addr:floor shouldn't exist - it should. Im saying that e

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread John Willis
> On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > > Actually, Taginfo says that addr:floor is used 4314 times (3162 on nodes): > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr:floor I was reading the numbers off the wiki page - I guess there is an error in the counter implementation

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread John Willis
Javbw > On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > But in some countries, the floor information is actually part of the address. Thats great, please tag it as such. I'm not saying addr:floor shouldn't exist - it should. Im saying that encoding non-address information into

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a salt flat

2015-09-29 Thread André Pirard
On 2015-09-29 17:29, joost schouppe wrote : Hi, I haven't found much about the subject. A salt flat is a large deposit of salt. They are usually where a river ends in the middle of a desert. Or where a valley i

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a salt flat

2015-09-29 Thread Warin
On 30/09/2015 5:47 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2015, joost schouppe wrote: Because they tend to be dry most of the time, and plants tend to dislike pure salt, they tend to look like a desert. How should one tag such a thing? I've seen three very different ideas: [...]

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:40 AM, John Willis wrote: > I think most business/dwellings don't have floor in their address, which > is why its usage (152 for points) is so low. > Actually, Taginfo says that addr:floor is used 4314 times (3162 on nodes): http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr:fl

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:40 AM, John Willis wrote: > Isn't addr:* for its postal / legal location definition? > > What if the floor level is not part of its address? I think most > business/dwellings don't have floor in their address, which is why its > usage (152 for points) is so low. Most bui

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread John Willis
Javbw > On Sep 30, 2015, at 12:38 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > > 2015-09-29 13:10 GMT+02:00 Eugene Alvin Villar : >> > addr:floor is about the address, "level" is used more often. >> >> When addr:floor=* was first proposed a few years ago, it had almost >> the exact same semantics a

Re: [Tagging] how to tag a salt flat

2015-09-29 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Tuesday 29 September 2015, joost schouppe wrote: > Because they tend to be dry most of the time, and plants tend to > dislike pure salt, they tend to look like a desert. > > How should one tag such a thing? I've seen three very different > ideas: > [...] There is no established tagging for this

[Tagging] how to tag a salt flat

2015-09-29 Thread joost schouppe
Hi, I haven't found much about the subject. A salt flat is a large deposit of salt. They are usually where a river ends in the middle of a desert. Or where a valley is completely surrounded by mountains, leaving no way out for any water. So salt starts accumulating as salty waters evaporate. Some

Re: [Tagging] Pubs with accommodation

2015-09-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-09-29 16:09 GMT+02:00 Jerry Clough (SK53) : > Because a guest house with a bar is different from a pub with rooms. At > least in Britain only residents would be allowed to buy drinks at a guest > house bar. > +1 > > As an aside, there may be a problem here with br-en "guest house" and >

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-09-29 13:10 GMT+02:00 Eugene Alvin Villar : > > addr:floor is about the address, "level" is used more often. > > When addr:floor=* was first proposed a few years ago, it had almost > the exact same semantics as level=*. > > Now, I'm using addr:floor=* to indicate the human-readable floor > in

Re: [Tagging] Pubs with accommodation

2015-09-29 Thread Jerry Clough (SK53)
Because a guest house with a bar is different from a pub with rooms. At least in Britain only residents would be allowed to buy drinks at a guest house bar. As an aside, there may be a problem here with br-en "guest house" and "Gasthof", the latter being better translated as br-en "inn". I wou

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29/09/2015 9:10 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > >> On 9/29/15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> >>> b) indicating floor level in the mall is useful, and looking at the wiki shows that the tag addr:floor=* is suggested -

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Warin
On 29/09/2015 9:10 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On 9/29/15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: b) indicating floor level in the mall is useful, and looking at the wiki shows that the tag addr:floor=* is suggested - but it only has 158 uses - which is amazingly small. is this the right key to indicate

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On 9/29/15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> b) indicating floor level in the mall is useful, and looking at the wiki >> shows that the tag addr:floor=* is suggested - but it only has 158 uses - >> which is amazingly small. is this the right key to indicate what floor a >> shop is on? > > addr:floor

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 29.09.2015 um 10:43 schrieb John Willis : > > I got lost at Kasuga station, because there were exits labeled 1,2,3,4,5,6 > and A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,A6. I wanted 6, but followed A6. i just want to know what > ref i should follow to get where i am going. > > Having a floor:re

Re: [Tagging] How to tag cricket nets?

2015-09-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 29.09.2015 um 06:08 schrieb Andrew Harvey : > > I'm more in favour of this. > > I've been tagging cricket nets as sport=cricket_nets, but I'm thinking they > should be sport=cricket (because they are related to the sport of cricket) > and use another tag to indicate th

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread John Willis
Javbw > On Sep 29, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > addr:floor is about the address, "level" is used more often. What about situations where the level and the signed level don't match? Im not trying to spatially locate the building for 3D rendering - i just want to know w

Re: [Tagging] How to tag cricket nets?

2015-09-29 Thread John Willis
Net is not a sport. "Putting green is also not a sport, so it is in golf=* Sport=cricket Cricket=net would be more in line with existing tagging schemes, especially the sub-keys for sports with static and well defined features (like golf courses and baseball diamonds). But we're wondering of t

Re: [Tagging] How to tag cricket nets?

2015-09-29 Thread Dave F.
On 29/09/2015 00:54, Warin wrote: These are used to warm up and practice Bowelling and batting for cricket. Previously they were tagged leisure=pitch and sport=cricket_net ... But someone has pointed out that this in not a sport... I see no problem with the way it is at the moment. The value

Re: [Tagging] Adding floor location information

2015-09-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 29.09.2015 um 03:50 schrieb johnw : > > a) is there a best practice to arrange all the point tags for the shops > placed on/in the Mall polygon? ideally you place them where they are when projected into 2D, you might even draw areas for them ;-) Maybe you could do it