Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-15 Thread Steve Bennett
Ok, so who's going to write up a description of licensed_club, so we can ram through a proposal? Steve ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-15 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Ok, so who's going to write up a description of licensed_club, so we can ram through a proposal? Which is mostly a pointless exercise in game theory. Just document it, add it to the AU tagging guidelines and sneak it onto the map features page at

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-15 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:12 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Ok, so who's going to write up a description of licensed_club, so we can ram through a proposal? Which is mostly a pointless exercise in game theory. Just document it,

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-15 Thread Liz
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Steve Bennett wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:12 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Ok, so who's going to write up a description of licensed_club, so we can ram through a proposal? Which is mostly a

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-15 Thread Liz
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Liz wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Steve Bennett wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:12 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Ok, so who's going to write up a description of licensed_club, so we can ram through a

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 James Livingston doc...@mac.com: I asked this a while back (possibly on IRC not on the list) and no-one really knew. In some cases, particularly SLSCs, the original purpose would still be very useful to have marked, in that case because it tells you where the patrolled part of

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: They're definitely not a QLD thing, but I think they are a very Australian thing. As well as sports clubs, you have the Surf Life Saving Clubs, RSLs and so on. Although a lot only have one bar and restaurant, there are a

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yeah, agreed that RSL's, SLSC's etc are in the same category. Are they really different from a Zagame's type venue, though? No idea what Zagame's is, so can't comment, you seem to think they are similar/same thing so we need to figure out a suitable

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Stephen Hope
The reason I thought they may be a QLD thing is the state Government here licences them a bit differently from your average pub (or used to, I haven't checked lately). Thus the (official) members only rules, connection to a sport club, etc. This connection can be quite vague - the one nearest my

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Liz
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: I'm still trying to see how this is very different from amenity=pub with another amenity=pokies (or whatever), and name=Smithtown Crocodiles Sports Club. Would it render differently from a pub? That's the whole point, they aren't a pub and they should

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com: The reason I thought they may be a QLD thing is the state Government here licences them a bit differently from your average pub (or used to, I haven't checked lately).  Thus the (official) members only rules, connection to a sport club, etc.  This

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread James Livingston
On 14/12/2009, at 6:41 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: I think my central argument is this: Your sports_club venue could be - a sports facility with no eating/drinking/gambling facilities for the public - an eating/drinking/gambling venue for the public with no sports facilities - or both. This

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Liz ed...@billiau.net: trouble with the combine amenities approach is that we can only have one amenity on a node, but amenities are getting so broad, there is often need for more than one amenity on a node Just do what I did for the BP nodes. amenity:atm=yes or just atm=yes as

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread James Livingston
On 14/12/2009, at 6:58 PM, Stephen Hope wrote: The reason I thought they may be a QLD thing is the state Government here licences them a bit differently from your average pub (or used to, I haven't checked lately). Thus the (official) members only rules, connection to a sport club, etc.

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:03 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: I'm sure that there was a tag for the first, although I can't find it now. Something like leisure=club_rooms or similar, which related to a sporting group but wasn't necessarily where the sports themselves were played,

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread James Livingston
On 14/12/2009, at 7:10 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:03 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: I'm sure that there was a tag for the first, although I can't find it now. Something like leisure=club_rooms or similar, which related to a sporting group but wasn't

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 James Livingston doc...@mac.com: I'm not fussed on the wording, but I think something for clubs would be good. You could probably use it for things like scout halls and so on too, if there isn't a tag for that already. Scout halls don't have bars, resteraunts or pokies so I don't

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Sam Couter
James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: I agree that they're not really the same as a normal pub, but I don't know how'd you'd really describe the difference other than the tenuous connection to some club and officially members only thing. Pub is short for public house and is a hotel, a place

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: Pub is short for public house and is a hotel, a place where anyone can get a meal, a drink and a room. Bars don't have rooms. That's a historical definition that I doubt many people would appreciate these days. In the ACT, a

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Liz
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Steve Bennett wrote: Pub is short for public house and is a hotel, a place where anyone can get a meal, a drink and a room. Bars don't have rooms. That's a historical definition that I doubt many people would appreciate these days. but i think that it is still legally

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:44 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Dunno about metro areas, but most pubs in rural areas will still rent rooms. Yep, but we're concerned with the wiki definition of the pub tag, not what pub means in general. And secondly, we're not concerned with the

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:44 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Dunno about metro areas, but most pubs in rural areas will still rent rooms. Yep, but we're concerned with the wiki definition of the pub tag, not what pub means in

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:58 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: As for tag naming amenity=member_club Which is also a little vague, but it is a valid description, would just need to be documented properly. Checking on wikipedia there is a similar notion in NZ, at least in

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Similar organisations exist in many countries, you might as well have a specific tag for them, like servicemens_club or something. The definition could be A venue providing cheap food and bingo nights in the company of old people. They aren't just

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:05 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Similar organisations exist in many countries, you might as well have a specific tag for them, like servicemens_club or something. The definition could be A venue

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:10 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: So... sports_centre for the actual sporting facilities, something_club for the commercial bit? Maybe social_club? club_rooms, while it sounded good for the buildings members genuinely use for their meetings and

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: For example, take a close look at the proposed definition of member_club - is it in the form of if A and B and C, it's a member_club? If so, isn't it a better solution to *tag* A and B and C? There's no need to create

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: (Oh wait, Roy believes that we shouldn't ever think about renderers, they're totally irrelevant. Just tag what you want to tag.) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Thought I might chip in to me this seems to be a matter of trying to cram a complex and ambiguous meaning into a single tag. I couldn't help but be reminded of the footway/cycleway situation. Is it not possible to *tag* what we are trying to

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, you wrote: Similar organisations exist in many countries, you might as well have a specific tag for them, like servicemens_club or something. The definition could be A venue providing cheap food and bingo nights in the company of old people. Well now it's morning, I'm

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:08 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/15 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Thought I might chip in to me this seems to be a matter of trying to cram a complex and ambiguous meaning into a single tag. I couldn't help but be reminded of the

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: Well now it's morning, I'm sure the correct term is licensed club eg http://www.clubssa.com.au/ so amenity=licensed_club seems like a good idea to me then add in the pokies, restaurants, etc in sub tags I support this.

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I favour licenced_club because of the word association with liquor licence and I am looking for another tag to replace amenity=pub that I have been using and isn't the best descriptor I like it too. I wouldn't worry about trying to

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I like it too. I wouldn't worry about trying to match the legal term used by a particular jurisdiction. I don't particularly mind which term we use, one that is the most common in a region/commonly known would make the most sense. I've heard both

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:46 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Or particular ethnic background etc etc etc. Example? Steve ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: www.irishclub.com.au Yep, cool, it says it's run by an incorporated association. (10,000 members of the canberra irish club...whee!) Steve ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:46 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Or particular ethnic background etc etc etc. Example? American Club http://www.bestclubs.com.au/club.aspx?clubId=442 Italian Club

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yep, cool, it says it's run by an incorporated association. That usually means not-for-profit organisation... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yep, cool, it says it's run by an incorporated association. That usually means not-for-profit organisation... Um, exactly. Steve

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yep, cool, it says it's run by an incorporated association. That usually means not-for-profit organisation... Um, exactly.

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: I don't particularly mind which term we use, one that is the most common in a region/commonly known would make the most sense. I've heard both the term registered and licensed clubs... *shrug* Anyone have a preference for a particular reason? In my experience licensed

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Liz
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: Yep, cool, it says it's run by an incorporated association. That usually means not-for-profit organisation... Um, exactly. Just pointing out another potential diff between existing amenity tags (like pub, resteraunt etc) and clubs... I couldn't

[talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-13 Thread Stephen Hope
I'm looking for some guidance on tagging for Sports Clubs. I'm not sure if these are an Australian wide thing, or just a QLD invention. I'm talking about the buildings that are run by (or for), are named after, and support a sports club or organisation, but actually don't have any thing to do

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com: I'm looking for some guidance on tagging for Sports Clubs.  I'm not sure if these are an Australian wide thing, or just a QLD invention. I'm talking about the buildings that are run by (or for), are named after, and support a sports club or

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:39 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I tagged one in NSW a while back, I just tagged it as amenity=restaurant but that probably isn't the best thing to tag it with. Might be worth tagging them as amenity=sport_club and then adding some details to the

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I'd double check that term. I haven't heard it used in this way. To me, a sports club is something like the local footy club buildings, the surf livesaving club, the bowls club... That is, focused very much on the members playing sport, not playing

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 5:31 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's what he's talking about, but most of those places have pokies, but aren't exclusively pokie dens. buildings that are run by (or for), are named after, and support a sports club or organisation, but actually