Re: [Tagging] Basic cartography features missing, why?

2020-11-07 Thread Walker Bradley
Dear all, First off I would like to state how fascinating this conversation is. I’ve been working with OSM data for years, and I never understood how the rendering actually worked. It seems like the challenges are two-fold. One is computing power and the other seems to be rendering algorithm

Re: [Tagging] Proposal to change key:man_made to key:human_made

2020-10-19 Thread Walker Bradley
I certainly support Rob’s view on *=yes Or if we want something similar to man_made=*, we have natural= we could also have unnatural= > On Oct 19, 2020, at 22:55, Robert Delmenico wrote: > >  > Perhaps the use of man_made could be dropped all together as it is somewhat > superfluous. > > Ie

Re: [Tagging] ref on roundabout

2020-08-23 Thread Walker Bradley
In Afghanistan, there are continuous highways that have roundabouts as junctions. The roundabouts, also have the same Ref because they are part of the continuous highway. For an example check ref=NH0101 ref=NH0102 ref=NH0103 or ref=NH0104 > On Aug 23, 2020, at 10:35, Mateusz Konieczny via Tag

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Qanat"

2020-08-10 Thread Walker Bradley
Is there further discussion on this, or do the advocates thing it’s ready for a vote? > On Jun 26, 2020, at 11:19, Walker Bradley wrote: > >  > I fully support it as outlined by Joseph. > >>> On Jun 26, 2020, at 12:59, Joseph Eisenberg >>> wrote: >&g

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Qanat"

2020-06-26 Thread Walker Bradley
> > > Thus, it would be continuity to go from waterway=canal, canal=qanat, > > tunnel=yes to waterway=canal instead. > > Yes, that is the plan. You can also add usage=irrigation or another > appropriate value of usage=*, and width=* > > – Joseph Eisenberg > >>

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Qanat"

2020-06-26 Thread Walker Bradley
waterway=canal instead. Thoughts? >> On Jun 26, 2020, at 11:27, Paul Allen wrote: >  >> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 15:57, Walker Bradley >> wrote: > >> So it would seem that historic=* or heritage=* would be appropriate sub-tags >> for qanats when applicable o

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Qanat"

2020-06-26 Thread Walker Bradley
26, 2020, at 10:42, Paul Allen wrote: > >  >> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 14:47, Walker Bradley >> wrote: > >> Some Qanats are over three thousand years old, and are certainly listed in >> guidebooks. > > Those may merit a historic=yes. Depends on the guideboo

Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - Qanat"

2020-06-26 Thread Walker Bradley
Some Qanats are over three thousand years old, and are certainly listed in guidebooks. There is a Qanat system in Persia that is UNESCO listed (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1506/) “Modern” Qanats/Karez are still often hand dug, not with modern tunneling equipment. The World Bank funded the r