[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Street_furniture

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Wed Oct 18 08:49:10 UTC 2017


Please do not even look at Google when mapping, we do not have permission to use it.

Phil (trigpoint) 

On 17 October 2017 23:28:53 BST, "José G Moya Y." <josemoya at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi!
>I'm just a novice, but after two months following this list I
>understand
>that:
>
>a) Tags are grouped by function. Some street forniture is just for
>people
>to enjoy them, some needs to be located by GPS navigators (traffic
>lights,
>barriers such as bollards) or emergency services (fire hydrants).
>
>b) Some services need to use short tags due GPX file format
>restriction.
>That was the motivation that raised up the proposal on new fire_hidrant
>tags. If firemen were upset for having to put complicate
>"emergency=fire_hidrant, fire_hydrant:flow_rate=blah blah" tags,
>imagine
>the situation if they need to look for "street_forniture=emergency,
>emergency=fire_hydrant..."
>
>c) Street forniture is difficult to map accurately. You need precise
>GPS
>hardware/software (my casual mapping has a 5 meter error margin), you
>need
>precise aerial imaginery (google is now very precise for cities at roof
>level, but shadows hide details at ground level), and you have a lot of
>objects to map and a very short time until the maintenance contract
>expires
>and the street forniture moves or disappears. That's the reason I map
>picnic tables in the wilderness but I don't do it in parks: tables are
>too
>close when inside cities.
>
>I understand that tagging street forniture would be useful for local
>authorities, since they (at least in Spain) do not take it in account
>before giving permits to new street forniture or street bars, and the
>final
>result is a sidewalk full of obstacles for pedestrians. But moving all
>street forniture into a category of its own seems to raise more
>difficulties than having it split into separate categories.
>
>Regards.
>
>El 17/10/2017 23:44, "François Lacombe" <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>
>escribió:
>
>Hi,
>
>Let's not forget street cabinets :)
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dstreet_cabinet
>
>As Warin said, all those things (including cabinets) may not always be
>along streets.
>"street" term may be understood as "outdoor".
>
>Would you create a key to move all the list from ma_made/maenity/... to
>one
>like "street_furniture" ?
>
>All the best
>
>
>*François* <http://www.twitter.com/InfosReseaux>
>
>2017-10-17 23:08 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:
>
>> Some of these things are not all, necessarily, along side streets -
>e.g. a
>> bench in a park.
>>
>> On 18-Oct-17 07:31 AM, hvdb wrote:
>>
>> my proposal = to make things simplier ; if there would be a key =
>> street_furniture , all those 'things' mentioned (benches / fire
>hydrants /
>> plant_containers / street_poles / streetlamps / bollards /
>traffic_signs /
>> traffic_lights / etc. etc.) could then arranged in 1 key  . And if
>> 'necessary', one could add more 'details' (for i.e. emergency /
>amenity /
>> support / etc.)
>>
>> 2017-10-17 20:27 GMT+02:00 hvdb <henke54 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> *Street furniture* is a collective term (used in the United Kingdom
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom>[1]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_furniture#cite_note-1>,
>Australia
>>> [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_furniture#cite_note-2> and
>>> Canada <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada>[3]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_furniture#cite_note-3>[4]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_furniture#cite_note-4>) for
>>> objects and pieces of equipment installed along streets and roads
>for
>>> various purposes. It includes benches
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bench_%28furniture%29>, traffic
>barriers
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_barrier>, bollards
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard>, post boxes
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_box>, phone boxes
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_box>, streetlamps
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlamp>, traffic lights
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light>, traffic signs
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_sign>, bus stops
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_stop>, tram stops
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram_stop>, taxi stands
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_stand>, public lavatories
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet#Public_toilets>, fountains
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain>, watering troughs
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watering_trough>, memorials
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial>, public sculptures
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_art>, and waste receptacles
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_receptacles>. The design and
>>> placement of furniture takes into account aesthetics, visual
>identity,
>>> function, pedestrian mobility and road safety.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_furniture
>>>
>>
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