Re: [Tagging] Disputed area

2015-07-26 Thread Eric SIBERT
Le 26/07/2015 03:20, Arch Arch a écrit : The main server is not for testing. Please use http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sandbox_for_editing instead <>> I did not do a complex thing. I've

Re: [Tagging] Disputed area

2015-07-25 Thread Eric SIBERT
I did some try. * Mont-Blanc area claimed by France and Italy but occupied by nobody. I have split the boundary into two branches (an awful job considering the number of administrative relations involved). I defined an area with: disputed_area=yes dispute:claim:FR=yes (area claim by France) di

Re: [Tagging] Disputed area

2015-07-23 Thread Eric Sibert
I think a good test case for testing if this can handle ongoing and complex conflicts would be Kashmir, as it's currently five-ways disputed between Pakistan, India, China, a Kashmir separatist/freedom/independence movement, and recently displaced-from-Afghanistan irregular Islamic fundamentalist

Re: [Tagging] Disputed area

2015-07-23 Thread Eric Sibert
Overlapping should be the first step to mapping a dispute. Then if you want to add dispute attributes, you could create a new multipolygon with areas in question, and add dispute specific tags, wikidata tags, and similar. In my previous message, I proposed to create a relation for the disputed

Re: [Tagging] bridge AND embankment

2015-07-23 Thread Eric Sibert
@Eric: I looked at more examples, and I have to admit that you are right with your statistical (0.1%) argument. Most cases I looked at, are obvious accidental tagging errors. I checked for Madagascar. I found one case and I'm the author :-p I first added embankment and later cute a small part of

Re: [Tagging] Disputed area

2015-07-23 Thread Eric Sibert
Yes, some disputed areas are more stable and, in osm, one may focuses first on it. In a lot of cases, there is "de facto" one country administrating the area. We should use the "de facto" aspect to draw a closed boundary=administrative. Then we may add to the relation disputed areas with

Re: [Tagging] bridge AND embankment

2015-07-22 Thread Eric SIBERT
Although I agree that such combination is suspicious... > 250 in France A rough evaluation for France give me 200k ways with bridge=yes. So about 1 error each 1000 bridges. Not such a big issue. My 0,02 €. Eric ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@op

Re: [Tagging] Disputed area

2015-07-21 Thread Eric Sibert
One thing that perhaps might want to be captured in other disputes is what happens when one country actually occupies and controls the disputed territory. There, there's a de facto border and a claim. Yes, I started with the easy case where not country is occupying the disputed area and both

[Tagging] Disputed area

2015-07-19 Thread Eric SIBERT
Hi folks, The are many disputed areas in the world but I want to talk about a specific one : the Mont-Blanc area. - Near the Mont-Blanc submit, there is a disputed area between France and Italia. - Both governments agree that there is a dispute - Both governments also decided not to solve th

Re: [Tagging] Maxspeed

2015-05-11 Thread Eric Sibert
In Italy we've been using something like maxspeed=50; source:maxspeed=IT:urban maxspeed=90; source:maxspeed=IT:rural +1 in France: maxspeed=50; source:maxspeed=FR:urban maxspeed=90; source:maxspeed=FR:rural maxspeed=130; source:maxspeed=FR:motorway maxspeed=30; source:maxspeed=FR:zone30 maxspe

Re: [Tagging] [Bug] calculated shortest route wrong

2015-04-29 Thread Eric SIBERT
Paul, USENET and Mailing List posting netiquette: 4. Do not cross-post: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#xpost People on [tagging] may not be aware of the beginning of the discussion and other people on [osmand] may only receive a fraction of answers. Thanks Éric _

Re: [Tagging] Current status of the key smoothness=*

2015-03-12 Thread Eric Sibert
(I think of the roads we drove in Kenya), so any input is welcome even if it isn't perfect. We ran into some nasty surprises during our trip because the road quality wasn't tagged at all. +1. I also widely use smoothness=* in Madagascar. Indeed, I use it to describe practicability of roads or

Re: [Tagging] tagging very wide steps - highway=steps on an area?

2015-02-27 Thread Eric Sibert
I had assumed for years that the direction pointing upwards was a commonly agreed on standard, being myself an architect I hadn't expected this to be questionable, but as I got so much flak from people insisting on the other way round, Like me :-p (although not insisting). Indeed, as a poor lon

Re: [Tagging] Ethnic shops

2015-01-28 Thread Eric SIBERT
I started modifying the wiki following our recent discussion. For cuisine=*, I added: "May also apply to other services that deliver food, like convenience." For shop=convenience, I added (in Tags used in combination): "Stores selling specific type of food or with ethnic origin may use {{tag|cu

Re: [Tagging] length=

2015-01-27 Thread Eric SIBERT
Le 27/01/2015 16:34, Martin Vonwald a écrit : Ok - understood. Although I doubt, that there is real usage for that example. But I had a quick look in overpass: besides aeroways it is quite often used on bridges and tunnels, where the actual (official) length can be observed. Makes sense. Indeed

Re: [Tagging] Ford and other river crossing : (was : waterway=wadi problem)

2015-01-24 Thread Eric SIBERT
I wonder if there are enough of them to warrant their own bridge=*, as there are so many kinds of bridges. I bet we can put a ford tag on the bridge - it might be a simple solution. I agree with your suggestion of using boot bridge=yes and ford=yes as it is usually a bridge but sometime behav

[Tagging] Ford and other river crossing : (was : waterway=wadi problem)

2015-01-21 Thread Eric Sibert
My apologize for switching the discussion (so I change the title accordingly) and also for slowly answering. First, I was not aware of depth=* use recommendation with ford=yes although it is in the wiki for years. Let me back to Madagascar. We have: - unpaved road crossing permanent river

Re: [Tagging] Ethnic shops

2015-01-19 Thread Eric SIBERT
Le 19/01/2015 18:42, althio althio a écrit : John Willis mailto:jo...@mac.com>> wrote: > I think there should be ethnic=*, Nationality=* , or culture=*tag that can be used [...] I find culture=* the best so far. I find it specialised enough (compared to _type=*, origin=*, category=*, group=*

Re: [Tagging] waterway=wadi problem

2015-01-19 Thread Eric Sibert
althio althio a ?crit : On 19 January 2015 at 13:42, Eric SIBERT wrote: One may also not that road are also subject to intermittent (un)usability. Some unpaved one are closed during rainy season. something with conditional? access:conditional = no @ (Jan-Apr) This is what I'm usi

Re: [Tagging] waterway=wadi problem

2015-01-19 Thread Eric SIBERT
I'm following this thread since the beginning. I'm interested in intermittent river for Madagascar (http://osm.org/go/lrsj4--?relation=447325). There is mostly a dry season and a wet/rainy season from December to April. There is also around 3 cyclones a year. Some rivers (or part of river) o

[Tagging] Ethnic shops

2015-01-15 Thread Eric Sibert
Hi all, I'm wandering on how to tag shops that are offering services with specific ethnic orientation. For instance: - convenience specialized for Italian, Portuguese, Chinese products... - clothes typical from one country/area - hairdresser for African people although non African may also wan

Re: [Tagging] pk vs kp on *=milestone and default unit?

2013-05-17 Thread Eric Sibert
Did yo had a look at the discussion of the proposed feature? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Milestones I agree that for pk, by default, unit should me considered as metric, as for height, maxweight, maxwidth, maxheight, maxlength... Eric ___

Re: [Tagging] Juice "restaurants"

2013-05-09 Thread Eric Sibert
I'd not choose amenity=cafe if they don't sell besides the juice also coffee. Look how quite specific the other tags are for places where you can drink, eg biergarten, pub, cafe, bar, kiosk, nightclub ... I'm wondering if the way we are coding different places where we can drink or eat i

Re: [Tagging] piste:type=nordic but without underlying track

2012-11-22 Thread Eric Sibert
Hi, I'm also using piste:type=nordic alone not only in field but also on track/road because a lot of things are different between piste and road. Physically, the piste is over the road but don't use his surface. Road is open in summer, piste in winter. Piste could be oneway and not the ro

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer agents

2012-11-19 Thread Eric SIBERT
Le 19/11/2012 15:58, Janko Mihelić a écrit : Maybe something even wider like: service:money:transfer=yes service:money:exchange=yes (because you can exchange currencies in some banks too, not only exchange bureaus) service:money:withdraw=yes service:money:deposit_coins=yes I like it. So servi

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer agents

2012-11-19 Thread Eric SIBERT
There's a proposal in the wiki that money transfer agents such as Western Union should be tagged as amenity=money_transfer. I don't like this tag because of the over use of amenity key. +1. Many of the money transfer agents are banks or bureau de change, which are amenities. Yes, in France,

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Obstacle

2012-10-24 Thread Eric SIBERT
About the values existing [...] For example, in my proposal there are a comment about obstacle=bridge (69,57% values of obstacle now), that can see here I'm surprise by the large use of obstacle=bridge. Do we have any idea on how it is used now? Éric _

Re: [Tagging] designation=* is a mess in Germany

2012-10-23 Thread Eric Sibert
Hi, In France, we have a strong misuse of this tag. Some people are using it instead of name=*. Maybe due to a lack of translation in Potlatch because "désignation" in French is a synonym of name. It is also used instead of note=*. For instance : building = school name = Maison de la Pet

Re: [Tagging] How to tag: road in Luxembourgish park with unclear status

2012-10-21 Thread Eric SIBERT
Road classification... such a difficult subject in many countries. For the part that inhabitants can use, highway=residential and access=destination. After, for me, the road is large enough for a car but motor vehicles are prohibited -> highway = pedestrian. Don't care about park maintenance.

Re: [Tagging] Emergency lane used by PSV at rush time

2012-10-17 Thread Eric Sibert
"Other lanes such as Wikipedia spitsstrooken in the Netherlands or Wikipedia temporäre Standstreifen in Austria, Germany and Switzerland which are available to GENERAL traffic (I.E. NOT LIMITED TO A SPECIFIC KIND OF VEHICLES) at certain restricted times, for example during the rush hour. " To pre

Re: [Tagging] Emergency lane used by PSV at rush time

2012-10-16 Thread Eric SIBERT
Sorry for late answer. There is so much traffic related to lanes on this mailing list. I suggest the following rewording which should reflect the initial intention: "Other lanes such as Wikipedia spitsstrooken in the Netherlands or Wikipedia temporäre Standstreifen in Austria, Germany and Switz

Re: [Tagging] Emergency lane used by PSV at rush time

2012-10-14 Thread Eric SIBERT
For practical tagging I think it is too theoretical for most mappers to understand the difference. [...] In somehow, having a not to complicated model or at least a two levels model a first simple model could be better. Back to my initial problem lanes=2 lanes:condtional = 3 @ traffic_jam l

[Tagging] Emergency lane used by PSV at rush time

2012-10-14 Thread Eric SIBERT
Hi, I'm translating the lanes=* wiki page into French. And some cases are coming into my mind :-p On a motorway, the emergency lane can be used by psv (bus and taxi) when there is traffic jam on the usual lanes. There is no predefined hours. Just, when traffic jam is detected, light signal a

Re: [Tagging] Narrow Bridge

2012-10-14 Thread Eric SIBERT
The standard English term for a bridge that is only wide enough for one vehicle to pass through at a time is a "one-lane bridge". In the same way, a roadway only wide enough for one vehicle at a time is a "one-lane road". The bridge or road is visibly only one lane wide; painting lane markin

Re: [Tagging] Reconstructing «Dificult passability» proposal to «Obstacle»

2012-10-12 Thread Eric SIBERT
you could use lanes=1 on the narrow parts. Agree. - a bridge or a raft with a bad link to the road/track i.e. a step at each end of the bridge/raft. obstacle=unevenness ? or obstacle=step? For me unevenness is to soft for what you describe. split the way and put a short highway=steps, step

[Tagging] Narrow Bridge (was: Reconstructing «Dificult passability» proposal to «Obstacle»)

2012-10-12 Thread Eric SIBERT
- a narrow bridge i.e. you can't cross a vehicle in opposite direction. We may use width=* but it is difficult to get it precisely. obstacle=narrowness It's slightly offtopic, but wouldn't it be logical to use "car" as a non accurate unit of length? So you can have a tag like "width=

Re: [Tagging] Reconstructing «Dificult passability» proposal to «Obstacle»

2012-10-12 Thread Eric Sibert
Hi, During my last travel in Africa, I was thinking on how to map obstacles on road. So I support your proposal but in a generalized way, not only for pedestrian or bicycle. And I take the opportunity to review what I observed: - a narrow bridge i.e. you can't cross a vehicle in opposite

Re: [Tagging] Seasonnal roads

2012-10-10 Thread Eric Sibert
I'm looking how to tag a road with seasonal opening or closing. ... Have you tried: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conditional_restrictions May I improve the wiki on seasonal=* to indicate that it would be nice to use it in conjunction with Conditional_restrictions? Regards Eric

Re: [Tagging] Seasonnal roads

2012-10-10 Thread Eric Sibert
For mountain pass in Alps, this could be just access:conditional = no @ Nov-Apr That seems logical to me. One word on using "access:conditional" though - this would indicate no access, including on foot. In somehow, we may consider that the road does not exist in winter due to the large a

Re: [Tagging] Seasonnal roads

2012-10-09 Thread Eric SIBERT
One of the main mountain highways here is closed to licensed vehicles during the winter months, but snowmobiles are permitted. Would vehicle:conditional apply to snowmobiles? I also have a similar problem with road that are use in winter for nordic (or not) ski. Up to now, I added a second way

Re: [Tagging] Seasonnal roads

2012-10-09 Thread Eric SIBERT
>I'm looking how to tag a road with seasonal opening or closing. ... >Up to now, I was using "opening_hours=*" with "Nov-Apr off". Have you tried: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conditional_restrictions I had a look some time ago but without thinking at seasonal roads. > Work is under wa

[Tagging] Seasonnal roads

2012-10-06 Thread Eric SIBERT
Hi, I'm looking how to tag a road with seasonal opening or closing. Typical, mountain pass are closed in winter due to snow. Usual opening and closing dates are published (like open from week 24 to 41). In opposite, some roads on ice are only opened in winter. In Africa, some unpaved roads ar