Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:58 PM, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: I wonder why many people try to force the approval of a tag by fast votes on the wiki. A tag gets approved by uses in the data and software handling it. I find it remarkable that after however many years of OSM's existence,

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-05 Thread Sander Deryckere
Normally you should start a proposal. I think you can immediately start with the voting stadium since there is not much to discuss about these tags. There are just an extension to the current schema and are perfectly backwards compatible. If you created the proposal. Do send a mail to this list

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-05 Thread fly
Am 05.06.2011 14:31, schrieb Sander Deryckere: Normally you should start a proposal. +1 I think you can immediately start with the voting stadium since there is not much to discuss about these tags. -1 There are just an extension to the current schema and are perfectly backwards

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 June 2011 23:58, fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com wrote: As a proposal you can almost added it the same way on the wiki as a approved tag and you can change anything that might not work or find a better solution while testing. I've done this in the past and set the status to defacto, rather

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-05 Thread David Murn
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 15:58 +0200, fly wrote: I wonder why many people try to force the approval of a tag by fast votes on the wiki. A tag gets approved by uses in the data and software handling it. Which raises another point, that if you really want to get your proposal accepted more rapidly

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi, On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Seth Golub s...@sethoscope.net wrote: Hello.  I'm mapping the fire alarm boxes in my neighborhood, and I'm not sure how to tag them.  Here's an example:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwthompson/36722209 77/ The closest thing I can find in use is

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-04 Thread John Smith
On 4 June 2011 17:02, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I don't know of any, but I would go with emergency=phone, and specify maybe in another tag phone=fire_alarm or some such thing. The description of emergency=phone includes 'making calls to emergency services' so it is not necessarily

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-04 Thread John Smith
On 4 June 2011 17:10, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 June 2011 17:02, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I don't know of any, but I would go with emergency=phone, and specify maybe in another tag phone=fire_alarm or some such thing. The description of emergency=phone

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:10 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 June 2011 17:02, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I don't know of any, but I would go with emergency=phone, and specify maybe in another tag phone=fire_alarm or some such thing. The description of

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-04 Thread John Smith
On 4 June 2011 17:44, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:10 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 June 2011 17:02, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I don't know of any, but I would go with emergency=phone, and specify maybe in another tag

Re: [Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-04 Thread Sander Deryckere
Hi I think this is best: emergency=phone vs emergency=switch or emergency=alarm this describes clearly the difference between one-way and two-way communication. If you want to be more specific about the service that is alarmed, you could use something like phone=police or switch=fire or

[Tagging] fire alarms

2011-06-03 Thread Seth Golub
Hello. I'm mapping the fire alarm boxes in my neighborhood, and I'm not sure how to tag them. Here's an example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwthompson/36722209 77/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwthompson/3672220977/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_alarm_in_Ridgewood,_New_Jersey.jpgThe