Re: [talk-au] no Maxspeed=* style sheet...

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
Due to popular demand this has been updated to include most common highway types instead of just residential/unclassified and similar types... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] ArcGIS editor for OSM

2010-07-05 Thread Jim Croft
http://martenhogeweg.blogspot.com/2010/07/announcing-arcgis-editor-for.html jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Fr

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. Why map any POI at all? I don't map everything - I choose what I think is significant. If you think it is significant that a particular church meets at a particular place, I think add a node. Same for cub scouts. Personally I'm not going to bother mapping where Scouts meet, but I appreciate

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 02:21 +1000, John Smith wrote: > On 6 July 2010 02:08, David Murn wrote: > > What about.. draw the school as an area/building, then simply put a > > single node for place_of_worship in the hall, maybe with opening_hours > > or something similar. > > So if there is 10 uses/us

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Mark Pulley wrote: > I'm planning to add a local church, but rather than having its own building, > it meets in a local primary school hall. What would be the best way to tag > this? > Should I place a node as usual over the building (place_of_worship= (etc)) > with

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 July 2010 02:08, David Murn wrote: > What about.. draw the school as an area/building, then simply put a > single node for place_of_worship in the hall, maybe with opening_hours > or something similar. So if there is 10 uses/users of the hall, we need to place 10 nodes?

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread David Murn
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 17:39 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Roy Wallace wrote: > > IMHO, No - I don't like the idea of using separate/duplicate features > > (e.g. an extra node) to describe something at the same physical > > location. > ...> So right now, I see four r

[talk-au] no Maxspeed=* style sheet...

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
As per David Murn's request/suggestion/wish for a no maxspeed layer similar to the noname layer, I made a overlay style sheet that shows ways similar to the noname style sheet, red lines, for ways that don't have a maxspeed=* value: http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=7&ll=-27.070,153.255&layer=B

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 20:21, wrote: > Interesting as the church as a building is a corruption of the original > meaning I did try to make this point clear by stating organisation v building, however it's a little difficult to geographically map organisations, so all we're left with is mapping buildings

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread edodd
> On 5 July 2010 17:39, Steve Bennett wrote: >> The only reason you gave against creating multiple nodes was you >> didn't like it. Seems fine to me. Especially since the church and >> school in this case are not really co-located: the centre of the > > There is no church, they're using a school h

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 20:06, Steve Bennett wrote: > Which we're not. There is no "on the ground" rule, guideline, axiom, > suggestion or anything. Can we stop using this non-existent guiding > principle? Ok, if we're not tagging physical objects what are we tagging? The gold brick road to Oz? > Yep, th

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:18 PM, John Smith > If we're tagging what's on the ground, Which we're not. There is no "on the ground" rule, guideline, axiom, suggestion or anything. Can we stop using this non-existent guiding principle? > then it's a school hall, if you > want to do minor uses this wo

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 19:27, John Henderson wrote: > Like a Post Office building also acting as a weather-monitoring station, for > example? Just tag the Post Office? They are usually physically distinct, they don't put rain gauges inside a building, they're usually away from the building... _

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Henderson
On 05/07/10 19:19, John Smith wrote: At most the church (as an organisation) makes use of a location, what's on the ground is a school facility that may have many such uses... Like a Post Office building also acting as a weather-monitoring station, for example? Just tag the Post Office? Jo

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 19:09, John Henderson wrote: > On 05/07/10 17:49, John Smith wrote: > >> There is no church, they're using a school hall for church based >> activities... > > "church" is a significant amenity provided by that building, surely. It is, > by all accounts, a place of worship. At most

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 18:52, Mark Pulley wrote: > Depends on the definition of church. If you mean 'building with pointy roof' > then no (although some church buildings don't have pointy roofs). If you > mean the congregation then yes. Depends on what the map is being used for - > if (for example) someo

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Henderson
On 05/07/10 17:49, John Smith wrote: There is no church, they're using a school hall for church based activities... "church" is a significant amenity provided by that building, surely. It is, by all accounts, a place of worship. John H ___ Talk-

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Pulley
Quoting John Smith : On 5 July 2010 17:39, Steve Bennett wrote: The only reason you gave against creating multiple nodes was you didn't like it. Seems fine to me. Especially since the church and school in this case are not really co-located: the centre of the There is no church, they're usin

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2010 17:39, Steve Bennett wrote: > The only reason you gave against creating multiple nodes was you > didn't like it. Seems fine to me. Especially since the church and > school in this case are not really co-located: the centre of the There is no church, they're using a school hall for

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Roy Wallace wrote: > IMHO, No - I don't like the idea of using separate/duplicate features > (e.g. an extra node) to describe something at the same physical > location. ...> So right now, I see four remaining options, IMHO all pretty crappy and > unsupported: The o