Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread dies38061
Whoa! Source is a deprecated tag, having been for years?! Good grief - the wiki has no indication that this is the case; http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source . Could someone please confirm that source is a deprecated tag and that it should no longer be used? --ceyockey -Origina

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:55 AM, wrote: > Whoa! Source is a deprecated tag, having been for years?! Good grief - the > wiki has no indication that this is the case; > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source . Could someone please confirm > that source is a deprecated tag and that it sh

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/1/13 7:32 PM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: I am interested in what tagging you would suggest to indicate that a stretch of road has been "adopted" as part of an Adopt-a-Highway program. unrelated to the source & amenity tagging discussion... i think that maybe adapt-a-highway is probably

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread nicholas ingalls
> it seems to me to be a likely maintenance problem in the long run. I know in Canada it certainly is! There are two adopt-a-highway signs where I live and both of the clubs that supposedly 'maintain' that part of the highway stopped participating in the program 7 years ago. The signs have remaine

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Jeff Meyer
Is there a difference between "deprecated" and "now used less frequently"? "Deprecated" sounds pretty official, especially in our unofficious (word?) OSM society. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:55 AM, wrote: > > Whoa! Source is a deprecated

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/2/13 1:20 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: Is there a difference between "deprecated" and "now used less frequently"? "Deprecated" sounds pretty official, especially in our unofficious (word?) OSM society. in my experience, deprecated is a pretty official declaration that something shouldn't be don

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Mike N
On 1/2/2013 2:16 PM, Richard Welty wrote: in my experience, deprecated is a pretty official declaration that something shouldn't be done/used anymore. java developers like me are quite accustomed to seeing APIs we use suddenly coming up "deprecated", leading us to scramble to the docs to see what

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/2/13 2:23 PM, Mike N wrote: On 1/2/2013 2:16 PM, Richard Welty wrote: in my experience, deprecated is a pretty official declaration that something shouldn't be done/used anymore. java developers like me are quite accustomed to seeing APIs we use suddenly coming up "deprecated", leading us t

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Jeff Meyer
Exactly. Where are these official declarations posted inside OSM? For example, Serge indicated source=* has been deprecated. Where is this (should this be) recorded? On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > deprecated is a pretty official declaration that something shouldn't > be

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/2/13 2:45 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: Exactly. Where are these official declarations posted inside OSM? For example, Serge indicated source=* has been deprecated. Where is this (should this be) recorded? normally you'd indicate deprecation on the page for the tag itself. i'm not sure we have a

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Toby Murray
The only real tag that is well and truly "deprecated" is created_by. Both JOSM and Potlatch automatically and silently delete this tag from any object you modify if it is present. So it is actually impossible to create a new object with a created_by tag on it in the two most popular editors. Toby

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > Is there a difference between "deprecated" and "now used less frequently"? I've tried to use "generally deprecated" for "Not used much and should not be used much". Where I've failed to do that, I apologize. Remember that virtually nothing in O

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Welty
On 1/2/13 10:49 AM, Richard Welty wrote: On 1/1/13 7:32 PM, dies38...@mypacks.net wrote: I am interested in what tagging you would suggest to indicate that a stretch of road has been "adopted" as part of an Adopt-a-Highway program. unrelated to the source & amenity tagging discussion... i th

Re: [Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
To play Psychostik's advocate, translating girl directions. "OK, now stay right while you're turning left, because you're going to hang a right after seriously the biggest tree you've ever seen, go five lampposts down, turn left on McCallaugh...or was it McDowell? McSomething. Then you'll keep