Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-04 Thread Craig Loftus
However, there are also instances of highway=no, where roads have been realigned or ripped up, should these also be removed from the database? I think highway=no is typically used as a temporary tag to try to stop remote mappers from adding something from a source that is not up to date. In

[Talk-GB] New section of Regional Cycle Route 90 near Brighton to map

2012-07-04 Thread Gregory Williams
According to this Highways Agency article there's a new section of Regional Cycle Route 90 waiting to be mapped: http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=424913 Are there any mappers in or near Brighton that fancy going out and adding it to our coverage? I

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens Doorstep Greens

2012-07-04 Thread Philip Barnes
Don't know if I did it right, but I mapped Wem millennium garden using leisure =park, designation =Wem millennium garden. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/147994711. Phil -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 04/07/2012 12:42 Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi All, I am looking for suggestions on how

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens Doorstep Greens

2012-07-04 Thread Brian Quinion
Searching OSM for name=Millennium Green shows that these are currently mapped as: * parks * village greens * nature reserves * recreation grounds * common land To me it looks like leisure=park is best (with the others used only when the exact same land area is also designated as

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Miller
On 4 July 2012 09:39, Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote: However, there are also instances of highway=no, where roads have been realigned or ripped up, should these also be removed from the database? I think highway=no is typically used as a temporary tag to try to stop

[Talk-GB] Millennium Greens, Doorstep Greens CROW Open Area land

2012-07-04 Thread rob . j . nickerson
Millennium Greens cover a wide range of on the ground usages. Same are clearly gardens, some parks, some nature reserves. Please do not retag these features to some perceived standard. I would also avoid overloading the designation key - better to have an explicit key than to reuse and existing

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens, Doorstep Greens CROW Open Area land

2012-07-04 Thread Ed Loach
Looking at the page on boundary=protected_area, perhaps class 7 is the right one for Millennium Greens? From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area#Bac kground There are no protected areas for the United Kingdom in the WDPA So I'd say probably not Ed

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens, Doorstep Greens CROW Open Area land

2012-07-04 Thread rob . j . nickerson
There is the boundary=reserve proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Reserve#Examples But can you really call Millennium Greens, Doorstep Greens and CROW Open Access Areas reserves? Not so sure. Having said that I do like the idea of a boundary=something,

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens, Doorstep Greens CROW Open Area land

2012-07-04 Thread Brian Quinion
are clearly gardens, some parks, some nature reserves. Please do not retag these features to some perceived standard. I would also avoid overloading the designation key - better to have an explicit key than to reuse and existing key. About the only thing these area have in common is that

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens, Doorstep Greens CROW Open Area land

2012-07-04 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 4 July 2012 15:19, rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not intending to twist an existing tag (some of which are highly debated anyway - e.g. landuse and landcover), just trying to identify which if any are of use for these cases. Okay which is preferred out of: * designation =

Re: [Talk-GB] Millennium Greens, Doorstep Greens CROW Open Area land

2012-07-04 Thread Rob Nickerson
What problem? None really. Just trying to add some details to this aspect of OSM. Although the funding is provided by the lottery the land has a designation within central government. The fact that the land is designated a millennium green means that certain conditions exist. Quoting from

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

2012-07-04 Thread Donald Noble
On 4 July 2012 09:39, Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote: I think highway=no is typically used as a temporary tag to try to stop remote mappers from adding something from a source that is not up to date. … However, what is the argument for keeping connections between