Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Search but cannot find

2015-03-19 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Pmailkeey . wrote: > Still makes use of 2 fields but keeps the main field 'tidy'. You can use whatever field name you want for non-standard usage, as long as it doesn't interfere with prior art---but you will likely find chosing something unique is not very useful. (...As nea

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Search but cannot find

2015-03-19 Thread Pmailkeey .
On 19 March 2015 at 16:31, Ian Caldwell wrote: > > On 19 March 2015 at 15:54, Pmailkeey . wrote: > >> If map renderers don't want to use C and U numbered roads, that is up to >> them to ignore and not for mappers to place in a different field in the >> database. >> > > But that means that render

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Search but cannot find

2015-03-19 Thread Ian Caldwell
On 19 March 2015 at 15:54, Pmailkeey . wrote: > If map renderers don't want to use C and U numbered roads, that is up to > them to ignore and not for mappers to place in a different field in the > database. > But that means that renderers would have to analyse the strings and that analysis will

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Search but cannot find

2015-03-19 Thread Pmailkeey .
Hi Dan, On 19 March 2015 at 08:15, Dan S wrote: > 2015-03-19 1:54 GMT+00:00 Pmailkeey . : > > > > On 18 March 2015 at 17:54, Ed Loach wrote: > >> > >> A wiki search for admin_ref finds > >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines#Tagging_Road_Numbers > >> > >> > >

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging U road numbers [was: Search but cannot find]

2015-03-19 Thread Pmailkeey .
On 19 March 2015 at 09:39, Andy Allan wrote: > On 19 March 2015 at 01:39, Pmailkeey . wrote: > > So all ABCU road numbers need to be consistently placed > > No they don't. We've had the discussion many times before, and in the > UK we don't put C or U refs into the "ref" tag. This is for good >

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging U road numbers [was: Search but cannot find]

2015-03-19 Thread Andy Allan
On 19 March 2015 at 01:39, Pmailkeey . wrote: > So all ABCU road numbers need to be consistently placed No they don't. We've had the discussion many times before, and in the UK we don't put C or U refs into the "ref" tag. This is for good reasons, as other people have explained. > It seems OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Search but cannot find

2015-03-19 Thread Dan S
2015-03-19 1:54 GMT+00:00 Pmailkeey . : > > On 18 March 2015 at 17:54, Ed Loach wrote: >> >> Dan wrote: >> >> >> >> > Can you point us to some further reading about this "admin_ref" >> >> > tag? >> >> > The wiki isn't telling me about it. If there is indeed a consensus >> >> > then it'd be nice fo