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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/08/2012 10:30, Dudley Ibbett
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> Hi<br>
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I am currently exploring the possibility of add a tag for
the "condition" of dry stone walls and also stiles. <br>
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I note in the documentation there has been discussion about
tags such as highway_condition and these have not been
accepted. The one use I have found is in
"building:condition=". <br>
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In the case of dry stone walls and stiles, is there a need for a
colon at all? In the case of a building I can kind of see the
logic (the building might be falling down but the business
operating from there is doing just fine).<br>
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In the case of dry stone walls and stiles, though, is there any
need for a colon to distinguish the condition of the stile from
something else?<br>
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<a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/condition#values">Condition</a>
is used a fair bit, but that looks to be the result of an <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS">import</a>.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I have contacted the Dry Stone Wall Association
to see if there have a classification system for condition
and I would then intend to use "dry_stone:condition=". The
system would be unique to dry_stone walls as the have a
tendency to deteriorate in a specific way so it would be
appropriate to use "wall:condition".<br>
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It certainly makes sense to use an externally-defined
classification scheme. <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness">Smoothness</a>
gets ridiculed; <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sac_scale">SAC Scale</a>
not so much.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I am also looking at tagging the condition of
stiles. i.e. "stile:condition=" Our local councils has
asked me to survey the local footpath and stiles as they
have funding each year for repairs which currently they
don't spend. <br>
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Sounds like an excellent idea. In this case there'd presumably
need to be a wiki page describing what values to use for
"condition" here?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Is this an acceptable use of the colon or is
there another way this should be done? Using ":condition"
would seem to fit in with existing practice for buildings.<br>
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This might actually be best asked on the <a
href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">tagging
list</a> (and perhaps <a
href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">talk-gb</a>
might be the best place to contact GB mappers who might also
want to tag the condition of walls and stiles). I wouldn't let
a lack of response there stop you doing it, though - most things
get mapped because they're considered useful to the person doing
the mapping. For example, I'm unlikely ever to map a <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings">roof
shape</a>, but if you're generating 3d maps, I'd imagine that
that's really useful.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Andy<br>
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