Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
Re: “On standard [OpenStreetMap-]carto (and probably most others) highway=milestone doesn't render.” There is an open issue and some rendering ideas from a year back: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3605 If anyone wants to help get historic=milestone rendered, they can

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread Agustin Rissoli
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Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Toy Library

2019-10-02 Thread Taskar Center
Please also include the tag variant Toy_library:for=disability For designated adapted toy libraries (we run one in Seattle, and I’ll be happy to tag it as such). Regards, AC > On Oct 1, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Mail Mail wrote: > > Toy libraries are a feature that has already been tagged a bit by

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 18:59, Agustin Rissoli wrote: > > > > Perfect! That is exactly what happens in real life when someone is > seeking an address based on location markers once the precision of the > distance used in addresses is low. > > This description should be in the eventual wiki > You t

[Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread Agustin Rissoli
Jorge, I think we should change the name of the tag to addr:road_marker or another, as many are not interested in milestone not being the correct name, nor should they care that it does not match highway=milestone, it is a lesser evil. > Think of the ‘milestone’ as a point of reference. The ‘miles

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 14:57, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: this is also a milestone in OSM: historic=milestone > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dmilestone > There aren't that many milestones (made of stone, marked in miles) around here but all of those I'm aware of are historic a

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 2. Okt. 2019 um 13:33 Uhr schrieb Paul Allen : > NO. NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. That's how we end up with bad tags. Like > highway=milestone. > Outside of OSM, a milestone is a stone with a distance in miles marked > upon it. Outside > of OSM, this is a milestone: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 13:26, santamariense wrote: > > > that you should not use the term "milestone" but something like > > addr:distance or > > addr:road_marker or whatever, because there are no milestones > > addr:road_marker seems to be appropriated Or something with similar meaning. Place

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread santamariense
> which coincidentally can match (or not match) the distance Well noted. The reference to a location marker used in an address rarely gives the exact distance. It is an approximated value with low precision, unlike the tag distance=* that is used with highway=milestone that is supposed to mark the

Re: [Tagging] New tag proposal: 'addr=milestone'

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 03:40, Jorge Aguirre wrote: > > In all fairness, I think it should not be as difficult to find a good way > to facilitate entering a complementary address tag, one that is very much > needed in our part of the world - one which applies to and needed in most > of the world ac