[talk-au] Project of the Week / Month

[Andrew Harvey]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> Hi talk-au,
>
> My name is Richard and I'm an OpenStreetMap enthusiast.  I've been
> maintaining the Project of the Week [1] for a while.  It's supposed to
> be a way for mappers to share the things about mapping that excite
> them with other mappers.  A way to encourage folks to map things they
> might not otherwise consider mapping. And a way to educate new mappers
> as to the best practices in mapping their neighbourhood.
>
> I intend for PotW to be inclusive and interesting and entertaining.
> For now, I am concerned about inclusion.  I had a look at the PotW
> proposals[2] today and saw one for lit=yes.  Now we haven't had a
> project for lit before, and it strikes me as fitting the goals.  There
> are lit roads in a lot of places.  Where there are few lit roads it
> might be even more interesting to have data on where the lights exist.
>
> And then I thought, "and the days are getting shorter, so this is a
> perfect tie-in for my introductory paragraph."
>
> And then I thought of you and felt bad.
>
> I don't want you to feel excluded from Project of the Week just
> because it is written by an insensitive northerner.  So I'd like to
> invite you to participate in Project of the Week and I'd like to
> invite you to contribute to Project of the Week by by offering
> suggestions or even guest projects for consideration.  I think it
> would be great to have projects that reflect your perspective as well.

It doesn't matter that our hours of light are longer this time of
year. We can still tag lit.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:37 AM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 10:33 -0400, Richard Weait wrote:
> One question.. lit=yes is fine for ways where you want to indicate that
> a way is lit, but how does one tag individual lights that arent on a
> way, for example wanting to tag lights around a park, shopping area or
> parking area.

What about adding lit=yes to the node/way/relation that has the
leisure=park, amenity=parking,... tag?