Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-11 Thread Warin
On 12/09/2015 8:36 AM, Colin Smale wrote: Why shouldn't it work? It is perfectly easy to understand what is intended. Anyway where is the list or definition of what constitutes a *primary* tag? On 2015-09-12 00:11, Dave F. wrote: On 11/09/2015 03:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: But the prima

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-11 Thread Russ Nelson
Dave F. writes: > > Don't destroy other people's mapping. Why is this not obvious? > > What's obvious is that it's a track. May I make a suggestion that I don't really want you to take? If you really agree with Frederik that abandoned railways should not be mapped, and you think it's okay to d

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-11 Thread Russ Nelson
Dave F. writes: > > Because when I see a spike, or a lump of coal, or a "road" > > which is level where no road needed to be but a railroad did, I map it > > as an abandoned railroad. > > Please give a list of tags you'd use to map the tracks in your photos. highway=track railway=abandoned

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-11 Thread Colin Smale
Why shouldn't it work? It is perfectly easy to understand what is intended. Anyway where is the list or definition of what constitutes a *primary* tag? On 2015-09-12 00:11, Dave F. wrote: > On 11/09/2015 03:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > >> But the primary key is definitely highway=track, pe

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-11 Thread Dave F.
On 11/09/2015 03:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: But the primary key is definitely highway=track, perhaps with some secondary keys that hit at it's former use. +1 As I've said elsewhere there should only be one primary tag, any historical info should be secondary. highway=track railway=abandone

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-11 Thread Dave F.
On 10/09/2015 10:04, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: more or less we're doing this. And adding what has been added in the meantime. E.g. people have added the names of the ruins of temples as the name of the temple (which is in some cases there as ruins in others hardly visible if not by reading th

Re: [OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

2015-09-11 Thread Dave F.
On 10/09/2015 04:15, Russ Nelson wrote: Look at these two photos and tell me what you can see, what you can "verify": https://goo.gl/photos/G41ehgPJyfEWcvwH7 https://goo.gl/photos/FfgSS5bDMQ3XW7MX8 What's this? Is it a trail or is it an abandoned railroad? See the spike? Where did it come from

Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: important... recomend auto deletion of any Fw:important

2015-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
On 11/09/15 01:27, Warin wrote: > I'll be putting a block on any more messages with the subject containing > Fw:important The buggers are using several subjects, multiple probably hacked relay sites, but all ending at the same crap. Just need that site closing down? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL -

Re: [OSM-talk] The wiki pages ... for the mapper? or the render? or both?

2015-09-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 11.09.2015 um 00:51 schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > > I put it to you that this bridge is not a property of these things. it is both for osm: an attribute for the ways running over it, stating that they are on a bridge (key bridge), and you can map the bridge