[Tagging] Billboard or something else

2019-10-29 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Just doing some tagging along a motorway & spotted an electronic traffic information sign: https://www.google.com/maps/@-27.5884424,152.8232412,3a,75y,110.42h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKWvFW2sU9ugwzCMYv6hTkA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 At this moment, it's showing travel times to various spots up ahead, but

Re: [Tagging] place or border_type ?

2019-10-29 Thread Paul Allen
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 09:16, Colin Smale wrote: > > Country-specific concepts require country-specific tagging, > Yes, but how that country-specific tagging is implemented matters. Rest of world uses A=B to denote objects of type P. Country X decides that A=B denotes objects of type Q.

Re: [Tagging] place or border_type ?

2019-10-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Il giorno 29 ott 2019, alle ore 10:16, Colin Smale ha > scritto: > > If X:de, X:it and X:fr appear to mean the same thing, it doesn't mean there > aren't subtleties which would be lost for ever if the tagging was conflated. whether or not they are lost depends on how

Re: [Tagging] Tagging estuaries: estuary=yes or river=estuary?

2019-10-29 Thread Colin Smale
On 2019-10-29 02:43, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > There is also a proposal to map the mean low spring tide line, the > lowest tide line along the coast: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:natural%3Dmean_low_water_springs > - so the estuary could end at the point where this

Re: [Tagging] place or border_type ?

2019-10-29 Thread Colin Smale
On 2019-10-29 01:21, Paul Allen wrote: > I have an innate dislike of such countrification on a global map. It's > better than > hijacking tags without adding a country code ("The rest of the world uses X=Y > to mean > Z but in my country X=Y means W"), but only marginally so. The problem

Re: [Tagging] Tagging of bicycle anti-features

2019-10-29 Thread Simon Poole
I would suggest adding a suitable "hazard" tag to the end of the cycleway (probably the last node before the common node with the road). Rationale: you probably want to maintain connectivity to the road because in the worst case it would still be possible to get to the road, on the other hand you

Re: [Tagging] place or border_type ?

2019-10-29 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:48:42AM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > Il giorno 28 ott 2019, alle ore 10:00, Sarah Hoffmann ha > > scritto: > > > > It is one possibility to tag such administrational oddities > > as German "kreisfreie Städte" where an admin_level=6 may be > > a county or a

Re: [Tagging] place or border_type ?

2019-10-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Il giorno 29 ott 2019, alle ore 01:23, Paul Allen ha > scritto: > > From a very brief examination of what kreisfreie Städte are they seem to bear > some > similarities to the UK's unitary authorities. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_authority > If the concepts