Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Round towers

2018-02-20 Thread Colm Moore
Hi, While we are discussing towers, there are many masts that are mis-tagged as towers. This is typically with mobile phone masts and similar. A man_made=tower is a building and has (normally internal) floor space, albeit sometimes very modest

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Round towers

2018-02-20 Thread Dave Corley
Tom's suggestion would be more in line with the norm i.e. Start with a pre-existing tag and then expand on it On 19 Feb 2018 21:49, "Donal Hunt" wrote: > +1 for the suggestion. > > I think a proposal for a specific type that covers Irish round towers is > probably

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Round towers

2018-02-19 Thread Donal Hunt
+1 for the suggestion. I think a proposal for a specific type that covers Irish round towers is probably warranted. Do we know if the design is unique to Ireland or are there examples in other parts of the world? Would be a shame to use "tower:type=defensive" but it may be the correct approach.

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Round towers

2018-02-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
On 18.02.2018 00:45, Colm Donoghue wrote: When I looked to see how to tag the round tower there's nothing to suggest that it's an Irish round tower documented in the wiki I'm proposing tagging all Irish round towers as man_made=irish_round_tower I'd prefer to start with the more generic

[OSM-talk-ie] Round towers

2018-02-17 Thread Colm Donoghue
I live in Lusk and I was looking at bits and pieces I could tidy up around. One stood out, the round towers national monument in Lusk are mapped as one single building, there's 3 Oldest is a round tower, then an adjacent tower with 3 round corners and finally a former CoI church When I looked to