Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/23 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 23 May 2010 01:55, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: actually, what's the point of isolated (or even the meaning: this is completely relative to context)? You can see that a place is isolated (given completeness of the map ;-)

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 May 2010 18:35, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/23 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 23 May 2010 01:55, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: actually, what's the point of isolated (or even the meaning: this is completely relative to context)?

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/23 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: And the whole thing became one big mess due to cultural differences... I don't know why. Places where one person, 2 persons, one family live, are isolated dwellings, if they are not connected to other such dwellings in the surrounding (and the

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 May 2010 18:46, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know why. Places where one person, 2 persons, one family live, The same reason cultural difference effect the language people uses and get used to calling things. A spanner isn't always a spanner, some times it's

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread Liz
On Sun, 23 May 2010, cultural differences... I don't know why. Without wishing to cause offence, we need to accept that there are cultural differences. We cannot ever understand them all, but we can accept that we do not all see the world the same way. I think that I understand that in

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/23 Liz ed...@billiau.net: I think that I understand that in Germany isolated_place is a defined type of entity, while in other places it represents a subjective decision. in some way, many of our tags include subjective decisions. I can find quite some results for isolated_dwelling and

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 23 May 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/5/23 Liz ed...@billiau.net: I think that I understand that in Germany isolated_place is a defined type of entity, while in other places it represents a subjective decision. in some way, many of our tags include subjective decisions. I

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/23 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: isolated dwelling here sounds like it is architect or journalist talk, not any cartographic or geo-orientated word. That's a decision from the context, because the phrase does not hold a particular meaning in a geographic sense Here it

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/23 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: have a look on page 4:

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 23 May 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/5/23 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: have a look on page 4: http://www.google.de/url?sa=tsource=webct=rescd=1ved=0CB0QFjAAurl=http %3A%2F%2F202.82.16.155%2Fbss%2Fgeography%2Fs7_ppt%2Fch6.pptrct=jq=settlem

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Allright, back to topic - can someone add place=isolated_dwelling to map features? Cheers, Peter. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Allright, back to topic - can someone add place=isolated_dwelling to map features? Should every approved key:value be placed in Map Features? If so, how do we manage the size of that page? select place, count(place)

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/5/23 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Allright, back to topic - can someone add place=isolated_dwelling to map features? Should every approved key:value be placed in Map Features?  If so, how do we manage the

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 May 2010 02:40, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: mentioned here. There is enough indication that lot of people want to see this clarified. Or at least a voicetress minority making enough noise to push it through, if this tag is so popular why is there only 42 instances of it in

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread Aun Johnsen
Or at least a voicetress minority making enough noise to push it through, if this tag is so popular why is there only 42 instances of it in use? And what is the actuall difference against the slightly more popular residence with 43 usages? ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 May 2010 06:05, Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org wrote: Or at least a voicetress minority making enough noise to push it through, if this tag is so popular why is there only 42 instances of it in use? And what is the actuall difference against the slightly more popular residence with

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/22 Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org: population in general cannot combine farming and fishing. Many of these are so isolated that there exists no cars there. IMHO the isolated in isolated dwelling is about the context, whether a building is part of a bigger settlement or is isolated

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-22 Thread John Smith
On 22 May 2010 20:56, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO the isolated in isolated dwelling is about the context, whether So place=farm, isolated=yes ? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/22 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 22 May 2010 20:56, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO the isolated in isolated dwelling is about the context, whether So place=farm, isolated=yes ? actually, what's the point of isolated (or even the meaning: this is

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-22 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:56 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/22 Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org: population in general cannot combine farming and fishing. Many of these are so isolated that there exists no cars there. IMHO the isolated in isolated dwelling is

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 May 2010 01:55, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: actually, what's the point of isolated (or even the meaning: this is completely relative to context)? You can see that a place is isolated (given completeness of the map ;-) ). Maybe I was unclear above, I see I made that

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread Pieren
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org wrote: I took the freedom to remove the mark of deprecated on place=farm and wrote a page with an easy to understand (I hope) definition of what a farm can be different from isolated dwelling

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Pieren wrote: place=farm In some countries the official type of a residential area smaller than a hamlet (Germany: Gehöft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Geh%C3%B6ft). place=isolated_dwelling In some countries the official type of a residential area smaller than a hamlet (Germany:

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread Liz
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Pieren wrote: place=farm In some countries the official type of a residential area smaller than a hamlet (Germany: Gehöft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Geh%C3%B6ft). place=isolated_dwelling In some countries the official type of a

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/5/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: . place=farm - use this for residential areas smaller than a hamlet, unless you think that place=isolated_dwelling is more appropriate farm is usage of the place. place=* tag is definitely more about size of settlement than usage of

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/21 Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org: I took the freedom to remove the mark of deprecated on place=farm and wrote a page with an easy to understand (I hope) definition of what a farm can be different from isolated dwelling http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dfarm OK, I made

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread Pieren
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: farm is usage of the place. place=* tag is definitely more about size of settlement than usage of it. Exactly. That's why I suggest (and some others) to deprecate place=farm. Otherwise, we will see in the futur

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/21 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: No reasons to stop this mess where in the past the place hierarchy was quite clear: city town village hamlet locality this is actually not clear, because locality was long ago (or has ever been) defined as uninhabited place, regardless the size of the

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-21 Thread Aun Johnsen
An old definition of places in Norway (do not know if it actually legal definition anymore) was as follow Land (nation) - herred (region) - amt (state) - fogd (church area) - len (munincipality) - by (city or town) / grend (hamlet) - gard (farm) Some of these have been weakened with time, so

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/19 Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org: How to tag Norwegian named farms making part of a grend which I would have tagged as hamlet? They are not isolated dwellings as they are not isolated, just parts of the larger unit. how much distance there is required to be isolated depends surely

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-20 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:51 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/19 Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org: How to tag Norwegian named farms making part of a grend which I would have tagged as hamlet? They are not isolated dwellings as they are not isolated, just parts of

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-20 Thread Aun Johnsen
I took the freedom to remove the mark of deprecated on place=farm and wrote a page with an easy to understand (I hope) definition of what a farm can be different from isolated dwelling http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dfarm On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:57 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on regular maps as if they were towns I'm sure that the Argentinians and the Americans have similar farms. then they

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 19 May 2010, you wrote: But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? No. Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on regular maps as if they were towns I'm sure that the

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/19 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Hi, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on regular maps as if they were towns I'm sure that the Argentinians and

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:11 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/19 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: On Wed, 19 May 2010, you wrote: But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? No. Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 May 2010 22:11, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I guess you would generally have to adopt the criteria for places in AU, we did this in Germany and Italy as well. e.g. 999 inhabitants is far too big for a hamlet in Europe. Towns we are not classifying by population (on

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:36 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: could someone with the ability please add place=isolated_dwelling to the main map features? Voting has ended on May 13 and the feature was approved.

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Pieren wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:36 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: could someone with the ability please add place=isolated_dwelling to the main map features? Voting has ended on May 13 and the feature was approved.

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, not all isolated dwellings are farms. But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? Pieren ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: not all isolated dwellings are farms. But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/18 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, not all isolated dwellings are farms. But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? yes, that's why I marked place=farm as

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: yes, that's why I marked place=farm as deprecated and put on a (temporary) note that it should be changed to isolated_dwelling. But doesn't that lose information? Why would one want that? Bye Frederik ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/18 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: yes, that's why I marked place=farm as deprecated and put on a (temporary) note that it should be changed to isolated_dwelling. But doesn't that lose information? Why would one want that? I was implying that you put the

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:49 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I was implying that you put the farm information to where it belongs, i.e. if there is a place=farm you could transscribe this to place=isolated_dwelling, landuse=farmyard.

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: I was implying that you put the farm information to where it belongs, i.e. if there is a place=farm you could transscribe this to place=isolated_dwelling, landuse=farmyard. Oh, I guess I hadn't followed this enough, I thought that isolated_dwelling was meant to

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/18 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Oh, I guess I hadn't followed this enough, I thought that isolated_dwelling was meant to be a node tag. it is a node or polygon-tag. Up to the mapper. In the end all place-tags are best on polygons and not on nodes. Cheers, Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/18 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Right, but this means you cannot downgrade a place=farm that sits on a node to a place=isolated_dwelling without loss of information because you could not attach landuse=farmyard to a node. At least that would be a very unusual way of tagging.

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread Liz
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Pieren wrote: But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? No. Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on regular maps as if they were towns I'm sure that the

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-18 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/18 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Tue, 18 May 2010, Pieren wrote: But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? No. Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on regular maps as if they