Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki - contact: Tag & Map Features

2014-12-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-12-18 21:41 GMT+01:00 Andy Street : > > > They try to push that tag everywhere even when the tag without the > > prefix is used 10x more. > > This is the ad populum fallacy. Any attempt to improve a tagging scheme > will always start out being numerically weaker regardless of the merit > of th

[OSM-talk] Back on OSM

2014-12-19 Thread Peter
Hallo iedereen, Eindelijk nog eens vrije tijd en natuurlijk kwam OSM weer op de proppen. Dacht beginnen te mappen voor mijn dorp (Peutie) maar zie dat er de laatste tijd al veel aangepast werd. Nu stel ik vast dat er verschillende manieren worden gebruikt in het aanmaken van huizen, plaatsen va

Re: [OSM-talk] Back on OSM

2014-12-19 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 2014-12-19 um 13:33 schrieb Peter: > Eindelijk nog eens vrije tijd en natuurlijk kwam OSM weer op de proppen. > Dacht beginnen te mappen voor mijn dorp (Peutie) maar zie dat er de laatste > tijd al veel aangepast werd. Nu stel ik vast dat er verschillende manieren > worden gebruikt in het

Re: [OSM-talk] Back on OSM

2014-12-19 Thread Matthijs Melissen
As this is a question specifically relating to the situation in the Netherlands, best to ask your question on the Dutch forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=12 -- Matthijs 2014-12-19 12:33 GMT+00:00 Peter : > Hallo iedereen, > > Eindelijk nog eens vrije tijd en natuurlijk kwam O

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki - contact: Tag & Map Features

2014-12-19 Thread Andreas Goss
There are also strange suggestions like "contact:webcam" (how would you contact someone via his public webcam?) and some documented keys are not even used 5 times (one has no occurence at all). These are at best proposals but shouldn't be in a "Key:"-Definition page. And with contact:facebook, c

Re: [OSM-talk] Back on OSM

2014-12-19 Thread Marc Gemis
Peter, I think you have this accidentally to the talk mailing list instead of the Belgian list. Perhaps you can read https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Using_AGIV_Crab_data . In general the house numbers are mostly placed on the buildings in Belgium. In some cases you can use

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki - contact: Tag & Map Features

2014-12-19 Thread Dave F.
On 18/12/2014 21:27, Andreas Goss wrote: Well, it's kinda what contact does. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact I can't believe this has reared its ugly head again. How little/much it's used is really irrelevant. It's usefulness is what counts & prefixing a tag adds no value.

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki - contact: Tag & Map Features

2014-12-19 Thread Mike N
On 12/19/2014 3:47 PM, Dave F. wrote: From memory the original claim was all 'contacts' could be filtered out in one go, but it was pointed out that post filtering would still need to be performed, and I'm no programming expert, but I was led to believe parsing a string like 'contact:email' is s

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki - contact: Tag & Map Features

2014-12-19 Thread Andreas Goss
In one go, there's this: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=contact I still don't see when that is that usefull. I mean yeah it's nice to see which tags people use, but that could just be documented in the Wiki. When editing POIs then when a POI has contact information that usually mak