Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-04-03 Thread Richard Z.
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:18:12PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Problem is that while wanting things to show on the map is a strong motivator for people, it doesn't scale - we are not far from the point where for every feature we add to our main map we have to remove another feature from this

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-04-02 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-03-30 13:50, Frederik Ramm wrote : Hi, On 29.03.2014 13:41, nounours77 wrote: BUT: I asked OsmAnd to render the tag, and the answer was - quite understandable: /Only officially supported tags will be rendered/. This is silly. How do they define officially supported tag? There's no

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-04-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02.04.2014 17:20, André Pirard wrote: BUT: I asked OsmAnd to render the tag, and the answer was - quite understandable: /Only officially supported tags will be rendered/. This is silly. How do they define officially supported tag? There's no such thing in OpenStreetMap. I wonder

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-03-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 29.03.2014 13:41, nounours77 wrote: BUT: I asked OsmAnd to render the tag, and the answer was - quite understandable: /Only officially supported tags will be rendered/. This is silly. How do they define officially supported tag? There's no such thing in OpenStreetMap. I suspect the

[Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-03-29 Thread nounours77
Hi there, Not sure if this is the right place for this philosophical question. But starting from the comment of Brycenesbitt to my apartment-proposal I feel this will become yet another piece of unmaintanable data in OSM. and several comments I got on my boat_sharing proposal just use it,

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-03-29 Thread Dave Swarthout
I am in the B category for my vision of OSM. I had not voted on these because they aren't important to me and i will never probably use either tag but the work you've done is good and I just now voted Yes on both. While I was reading through the table of possible tourism=*_hut I noticed that you

Re: [Tagging] What is OSM: a base layer for individual maps, or a fully featured geobased information system?

2014-03-29 Thread Dan S
Hi - I'm afraid the answer is neither. OSM is a database for geodata that is open-licensed, publicly verifiable and not short-term. This means it's more than just a base-layer. But it also means it's not a database for all possible geodata. We don't include holiday apartment reviews/ratings