Re: [Tagging] JOSM preset with strange tag values

2016-03-02 Thread Dave Swarthout
@Warin, Thanks for your reply. While I may agree with you on some of this my question has more to do with understanding the tagging scheme that's in place and how it came to be there rather than trying to change it to something different. For example, I agree "sells" would be a better tag than

Re: [Tagging] Proposal about suffixed tags has been approved

2016-03-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 03.03.2016 um 03:57 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo : > > The fact that we don't know wether the extra name is an old_name or a > loc_name or something else is independant of how the extra name was > taged. The information is equally lacking from name_1,

Re: [Tagging] JOSM preset with strange tag values

2016-03-02 Thread Warin
On 3/03/2016 12:23 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: I recently discovered a preset in JOSM that should help in my work, shop=motorcycle (See:Presets/Transport/Motorcycle/Motorcycle Dealer in JOSM rel 9900). It is very detailed and would seem to cover every possible aspect of such shops from

[Tagging] OpenStreetMap Data Contribution Study

2016-03-02 Thread hall
Hello, Our names are Andrew Hall and Sarah McRoberts and we are Ph.D. students and researchers within GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota. We are currently undertaking a study on data contribution within OpenStreetMap and would greatly appreciate any OpenStreetMap contributors

Re: [Tagging] Proposal about suffixed tags has been approved

2016-03-02 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 25/02/2016, Hakuch wrote: >>> That is absoulutely no justification for your edits without asking the >>> the list. >> >> I honestly believe I acted in the same way that you did (no accusation >> of wrong-doing). > > sorry but that is is really far from truth. Before I did the

[Tagging] JOSM preset with strange tag values

2016-03-02 Thread Dave Swarthout
I recently discovered a preset in JOSM that should help in my work, shop=motorcycle (See:Presets/Transport/Motorcycle/Motorcycle Dealer in JOSM rel 9900). It is very detailed and would seem to cover every possible aspect of such shops from clothing and accessories to service. But it uses some tags

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Approved - Government offices

2016-03-02 Thread Matthijs Melissen
Dear all, The proposal for office=government has been approved. The proposal also proposed to mark the alternatives amenity=public_building and office=administrative as 'discouraged': http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Government_offices The proposal received 18 approving

[Tagging] sloped_curb, kerb and god knows what left in limbo ......

2016-03-02 Thread Simon Poole
Accidentally I noticed today that iD was suggesting a sloped_curb tag for crossings, it piqued my curiosity a bit and it seems that we have the situation now, that we have two different tagging systems in moderate use (~20'000 occurrences of slopped_curb and kerb each). But no documentation for