Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag an archway ?

2009-06-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/13 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: Hi, someone on the french list asked how we could tag an archway ? Something like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Place_des_Vosges_archway.jpg I didn't find anything on the wiki or tagwatch. Maybe it's even questionable to have a special tag

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag an archway ?

2009-06-15 Thread Richard Mann
An arcade usually cuts through a block, rather than running alongside a road. I'd have said colonnade was about right, though they're not exactly common in the UK (the two level shops at Chester spring to mind, but they are probably peculiar to themselves). We do have what can best be described as

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag an archway ?

2009-06-15 Thread Emilie Laffray
Richard Mann wrote: An arcade usually cuts through a block, rather than running alongside a road. I'd have said colonnade was about right, though they're not exactly common in the UK (the two level shops at Chester spring to mind, but they are probably peculiar to themselves). We do have what

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag an archway ?

2009-06-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/15 Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_(architecture) However, the articles on wikipedia are pretty poor. +1 (the English one at least, also the 2 last pictures are not typical for what architects call an arcade, but they refer to the commercial

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag an archway ?

2009-06-15 Thread Emilie Laffray
Richard Mann wrote: Arcade may be better than colonnade, but arcade is definitely in more common usage in the UK for a pedestrian route through a block with shops on both sides, so it will be slightly misleading. However I suppose the position next to a road makes it clear that it's one-sided.

[OSM-talk] How to tag an archway ?

2009-06-13 Thread Pieren
Hi, someone on the french list asked how we could tag an archway ? Something like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Place_des_Vosges_archway.jpg I didn't find anything on the wiki or tagwatch. Maybe it's even questionable to have a special tag since it is either a normal extension of

Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag an archway ?

2009-06-13 Thread Mario Salvini
Pieren schrieb: Hi, someone on the french list asked how we could tag an archway ? Something like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Place_des_Vosges_archway.jpg I didn't find anything on the wiki or tagwatch. Maybe it's even questionable to have a special tag since it is either