[OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Simon Wood
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:17:37 -0600 Simon Wood wrote: > I have had a go at tidying the proposed tags for communication towers and > would welcome any comments. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Communications_tower > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Simon Wood
> > Formally recognized or not, mapnik renders man_made=tower. > > http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=34.702412609490736&lon=-82.80072603684314&zoom=17&layers=0F0B0F That is actually a 'water tower' (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/312327421) with tags: created_by = Potlatch 0.

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Adam Schreiber wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Simon Wood wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:17:37 -0600 >> Simon Wood wrote: >> >>> I have had a go at tidying the proposed tags for communication towers and >>> would welcome any comments. >>> >>> http://w

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Simon Wood wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:17:37 -0600 > Simon Wood wrote: > >> I have had a go at tidying the proposed tags for communication towers and >> would welcome any comments. >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Communications_

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Ed Loach
Adam wrote: > > Formally recognized or not, mapnik renders man_made=tower. > > =water_tower anyway. *whoops* It does know man_made=mast though which I think corresponds to a communications tower. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik/Tags http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.92357&lon=1.087

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Simon Wood
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:30:16 +0100 "Ed Loach" wrote: > It does know man_made=mast > Which does not have a page on the wiki, and is not listed on the 'man_made' page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Man_made So I guess that it's not valid either. It seems that this little corner of OSM is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread David Earl
Simon Wood wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:30:16 +0100 "Ed Loach" wrote: > > >> It does know man_made=mast >> > > Which does not have a page on the wiki, and is not listed on the > 'man_made' page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Man_made > > So I guess that it's not valid either. It seems

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 13/7/09, Simon Wood wrote: > Following suggestions and the fact that 'man_made:tower' > does not appear to be a formally recognised tag (even if > JOSM knows about it) I would like to bring the following two > tags into the approval process. There is a bazillion man_made=tower's, as

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Chris Hill
During the discussions I and other pointed out that man_made=mast is already used, but the "process" continued.  There's no such thing as valid.  It is the *open* streetmap, i.e. all tags are equally valid (which I also pointed out in the discussion in December 2007).  I do think that the discu

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Simon Wood
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:53:11 +0100 Chris Hill wrote: > During the discussions I and other pointed out that man_made=mast is already > used, but the "process" continued. Please don't take this as anything detremental against Chris or his suggestions 'man_made=mast' and 'man_made=tower' are

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, With a mighty mouse-click, we can import 30,000 tower=smooth tags :@) -but of course we wont. (OK, bad joke) What i can do is edit the big Google Docs chart to list the hyperlinks to the wiki; or rather, go through the wiki/charts and make pages for each tags that are (will be) in use. For thi

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-13 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Sam Vekemans wrote: > With a mighty mouse-click, we can import 30,000 > tower=smooth tags :@) > -but of course we wont. (OK, bad joke) Jokes aside that isn't actually far fetched since the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) has a big database of this in

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-14 Thread Lennard
John Smith wrote: > Jokes aside that isn't actually far fetched since the ACMA (Australian > Communications and Media Authority) has a big database of this information > available, although I'm not sure of the license on the data and I don't > really want to be the one responsible for importing

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-14 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Lennard wrote: > At the moment, they have been imported in a way that will > not render: > height=46 > source=Antennebureau > source_ref=http://www.antenneregister.nl/ > technology=GSM 900 I'd split the last line into frequency/technology, 900Mhz or similar for freq, and t

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

2009-07-14 Thread Lennard
John Smith wrote: >> source_ref=http://www.antenneregister.nl/ >> technology=GSM 900 > > I'd split the last line into frequency/technology, 900Mhz or similar for > freq, and technology could be a bunch of things, from > GSM|UTMS|HSDPA|WCDMA|WiMax|LTE etc etc etc... Seems reasonable. The import