Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - sunbathing

2019-11-06 Thread Vɑdɪm
The voting reached the planned end date. There are 18 votes in total submitted there plus 2 non-voting comments. The results are: 13 "yes" including my own vote and 5 "no" including one without a comment, which gives 72% of "yes" votes. It's marginally lower than 74%, but the response is appare

[Tagging] railway=level_crossing vs tracks embedded into the road

2019-10-24 Thread Vɑdɪm
It's quite often that people mark every crossing between railway=* and highway=* with the railway=level_crossing tag (https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Nls), sometimes even if both belong to the same carriageway. While this situation is rather relevant to tramways, but it also applies other types of rai

Re: [Tagging] Proposing an amendment for an existing tag

2019-10-22 Thread Vɑdɪm
dieterdreist wrote > can you please be more specific? It really depends on the kind of > amendment > which procedure seems appropriate (or at least isn't for sure). At some urban locations one can find (https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Nls) that every crossing of a railway=tram with any highway=* is ta

[Tagging] Proposing an amendment for an existing tag

2019-10-21 Thread Vɑdɪm
I wonder how such an amendment could be arranged. Should I just make a copy of an existing page, make the relevant changes there and let people know what it is all about? Thanks Vadim -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Tagging-f5258744.html _

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - sunbathing

2019-10-21 Thread Vɑdɪm
Hello, I've opened the voting for the leisure=sunbathing_area to tag outdoor locations dedicated for sunbathing. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sunbathing Verifiability is an underlying assumption of OSM. Hence the word "dedicated" is essential for describing such an area.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-21 Thread Vɑdɪm
> Great.  Write your proposal around those designated areas.  Put photos of the signage > in the proposal, if you have them. As you've put yourself: a "designated area" is not equivalent to an "area with a signage". > The wiki page for leisure=fishing doesn't require verifiability because > that

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-20 Thread Vɑdɪm
I think you guys forgot one thing: the OSM is not specifically about UK, Australia or any other country. It's a global map. In your region you may perhaps you may not have any dedicated areas for sunbathing, so -- don't use the tag. On the other hand I could imagine there are some countries you co

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-17 Thread Vɑdɪm
Tagging mailing list wrote > That you've changed your tune & given vague/unrealistic examples > suggests you don't really have a proposal with any validity. It appears > you have a solution looking for a problem. > > Maybe your OSM time would be better spent on other aspects of the project? I t

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-15 Thread Vɑdɪm
dieterdreist wrote > sent from a phone > >> On 14. Oct 2019, at 20:03, Markus < > selfishseahorse@ > > wrote: >> >> It's a detail, but i think that leisure=sunbathing_area (or >> leisure=sunbathing_place) were a more descriptive tag than >> leisure=sunbathing. Besides, most leisure=* values are

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-15 Thread Vɑdɪm
Tagging mailing list wrote > Better to drop it. it's too vague/general. > > All the examples in this list are leisure places (Beach, lido, park) at > which sunbathing is just one of many assumed activities. Swimming, > kicking a ball about, throwing a frisbee etc.There's no requirement to > exp

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-14 Thread Vɑdɪm
OK. Any more comments or we better go for a vote? -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Tagging-f5258744.html ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Pedestrian and highway crossings of tramways

2019-10-13 Thread Vɑdɪm
Richard Fairhurst wrote > There is no need to have railway=crossing, railway=level_crossing, > railway=tram_crossing and railway=tram_level_crossing. They are > semantically > identical. The type of ways (tram or heavy rail, footpath or road) is > already expressed in the way tags and doesn't need

Re: [Tagging] railway crossings with cycleways

2019-10-13 Thread Vɑdɪm
Warin wrote > I note they have not considered a bridleway. Actually would it be more reasonable to use only railway=crossing for any crossing of a railway as suggested by Richard Fairhurst at the http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Pedestrian-and-highway-crossings-of-tramways-tp5949364p5949424.html, th

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-10 Thread Vɑdɪm
Paul Allen wrote > You've found pictures of sunbathing areas with sunshades. > Others have found pictures of sunbathing areas without sunshades. Yet > others have > found pictures of sunshades that are most definitely not in sunbathing > areas. Great! That sounds good to me. Paul Allen wrote

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-10 Thread Vɑdɪm
Paul Allen wrote > They are not a good indicator either > way and therefore should not be mentioned in the proposal even as a > possible indicator. Perhaps that's question of a definition. Please have a look at 3 pictures posted here earlier and let me know what do you think of them. -- Sent fr

Re: [Tagging] Divided highways, and not so divided highways, one way or two

2019-10-10 Thread Vɑdɪm
Florian Lohoff-2 wrote > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 08:38:28AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Mapping large, multi-lane roads with a "do not cross line" in the > middle as single line requires 4-5 times the number of turn > restrictions. These are number i am estimating from my own experience > mapping

Re: [Tagging] Pedestrian and highway crossings of tramways

2019-10-10 Thread Vɑdɪm
Markus-5 wrote > The problem here is that pedestrians are routed along the highway=* > way and, as you wrote, tram tracks are usually (unfortunately) mapped > as separate ways. Consequently, the railway=crossing node is > disconnected from the highway=* way with the highway=crossing node > (that is

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-10 Thread Vɑdɪm
Tagging mailing list wrote > Our local Primary School (ages 4 - 11 years, just in case there is any > doubt) has shade sails over part of the playground to protect the little > darlings from the sun whilst playing outside.  > You would not get as very warm welcome, if you turned up there in your >

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-10 Thread Vɑdɪm
Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote > On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 00:30, Vɑdɪm < > vadp.devl@ > > wrote: > >> >> As for sunshades (or parasoles), they are used by sunbathers en masse, in >> particular to cast a shadow on the face. >> > > Maybe at the places

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-09 Thread Vɑdɪm
Paul Allen wrote > On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 14:16, Vɑdɪm < > vadp.devl@ > > wrote: > I'm not convinced your > proposal is > useful anyway, so would probably abstain, but if your proposal says that > sunshades > are indicative of sunbathing areas I will defin

Re: [Tagging] railway crossings with cycleways

2019-10-09 Thread Vɑdɪm
On the other hand the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic mentions crossings for cyclists separately (https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/conventn/Conv_road_traffic_EN.pdf): > 3. (a) The standing or parking of a vehicle on the carriageway shall be > prohibited: > (i) On pedestrian crossings, o

Re: [Tagging] railway crossings with cycleways

2019-10-09 Thread Vɑdɪm
Paul Johnson-3 wrote > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 7:58 AM Martin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdreist@ > > > wrote: > > I'm strongly inclined to consider a cycleway a road, not a footway. How is about a shared way for pedestrians and bicyclists ? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Zeichen_240_-_Ge

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-09 Thread Vɑdɪm
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 15:40, Paul Allen [via GIS] wrote: > > Actually, it's true of the rest of the world, too.  You cannot sunbathe > under a sunshade. > Therefore sunshades are NOT indicative that an area is for sunbathing. >  Maybe, just > maybe, an area designated for sunbathing may have some

Re: [Tagging] Pedestrian and highway crossings of tramways

2019-10-09 Thread Vɑdɪm
Hi Markus-5, On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 20:14, Markus-5 [via GIS] wrote: > > I don't know the situation in other countries, but in Switzerland, > pedestrian train crossing are signalised (example [1]), while > pedestrian tram crossings usually aren't (example [2]), even if the > tram runs on a reserve

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-09 Thread Vɑdɪm
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 13:39, Warin [via GIS] wrote: > In Australia sunshades are to keep people out of the sun, not for > 'sunbathing'. > > Poolsides and beaches are used for sunbathing... but have no official > 'designation' for sunbathing. > > The only designated sunbathing I can find on the web

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-09 Thread Vɑdɪm
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 12:21, Marc Gemis [via GIS] wrote: > > Does this include places like the one see in the images here [1] > Those depict what we call ligweide or zonneweide in Dutch. Those are > grass areas typically next to a open-air swimming pool. > > > [1] > https://www.google.com/search?q=

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-09 Thread Vɑdɪm
Warin wrote > Humm.. don't think any place here is 'designated' for sunbathing. > > Who has done this 'designation' for sunbathing? Actually there are some. Please have a look at the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sunbathing#Examples, specifically at the 1st couple of them

[Tagging] Pedestrian and highway crossings of tramways

2019-10-08 Thread Vɑdɪm
One could find two different schemes are used for this across the OSM: #1. The most popular way is to tag the nodes with railway=crossing (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dcrossing). There are currently *35151* nodes like this around the world https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/MVO. It

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-10-08 Thread Vɑdɪm
Considering the responses it may be better to give a more definite criteria for using this tag. In this regard the definition of leisure=sunbathing as *any* popular place suitable for sunbathing looks rather vague. It could be more easily also used as a trolltag. So, how is about using leisure=su

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sunbathing

2019-09-08 Thread Vɑdɪm
dieterdreist wrote > you might want to refer to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:nudism > as suitable combination. The difference with the nudism=* key though is that leisure=sunbathing is supposed for tagging of a self-sufficient area which may be a part of some larger area like a beach or