Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Körner
Seems fine for me. I'm still looking for a new key for jobs like lawyers, architects, notary, etc. It was suggested to use office=* in some older thread. I will create a similar proposal as yours on the wiki. Yes, that's cool! It has been supposed to get a list from an external resource

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-07 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/12/7 Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com writes: What about architect=yes, like you get for bridge, area, building... Seems to work well. And then, if and when you have more information to add (eg, lawyer=immigration), you have somewhere to

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-06 Thread Peter Körner
We're talking about a new craft-tag. I put some things down in the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MaZderMind/Key:craft http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MaZderMind/DE:Key:craft To calm any nervouse one around: I'll convert this into a proposal the other day and I won't

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-06 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: We're talking about a new craft-tag. I put some things down in the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MaZderMind/Key:craft http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MaZderMind/DE:Key:craft To calm any

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-06 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: These aren't two atoms of data, just one. Unfortunately, there is the technical requirement to provide two strings - key and value. A thingy key (could be type or poi or whatever just as well as amenity) is a method to

[OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-05 Thread Pieren
I just discover the entry architect_office in the category amenity on Map Features [1]. Then I also found a proposal for amenity=lawyer [2]. Is amenity the righ place/category for such things ? I'm not a native english speakier but is amenity the right category for lawyers, architects, designers,

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-05 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:33, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not a native english speakier but is amenity the right category for lawyers, architects, designers, etc, next after museums, fountains, stripclubs or borthels ? We've long since passed the point where amenity is an accurate

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-05 Thread Pieren
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: We've long since passed the point where amenity is an accurate description for the value that comes after it. In the OpenStreetMap database amenity is best pronounced as a thingy :) Is that a reason to not improve

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-05 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 17:52, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: We've long since passed the point where amenity is an accurate description for the value that comes after it. In the OpenStreetMap database amenity is

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-05 Thread Tobias Knerr
Pieren wrote: We've long since passed the point where amenity is an accurate description for the value that comes after it. In the OpenStreetMap database amenity is best pronounced as a thingy :) Is that a reason to not improve things (or try to )? Is introducing somewhat arbitrary

Re: [OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

2009-12-05 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 21:46, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Pieren wrote: We've long since passed the point where amenity is an accurate description for the value that comes after it. In the OpenStreetMap database amenity is best pronounced as a thingy :) Is that a reason to not