[OSM-talk-be] This week in OSM mailing lists (June 9 - 16)

[Ben Laenen]

Hi all,

Another week, another summary. Not a lot of interesting discussions in talk@ 
this week, but luckily we still have tagging at ...

Greetings
Ben



* OSM in WolframAlpha

WolframAlpha now displays an OSM map when you ask information of a city

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Brussels


* Cable distribution cabinets (tagging@)

Originally about the tag for small cabinets that distribute electricity to 
homes.

Evolved in a new discussion about the power=* tags that don't mean in English 
what their tags suggest: a power station is power=generator, a power 
substation is power=station and then there's power=substation 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power=cable_distribution_cabinet


* highway=motorway/motorroad implications (tagging@)

Question on what these tags should imply (e.g. oneway=yes, bicycle=no...)
Usual discussion that these tags mean different things in different countries.


* Aerodrome classification (tagging@)

Currently all airports, airfields and heliports are just tagged with 
aeroway=aerodrome and we can an extra tag to discern between international 
airports and small airstrips. But what should be the basis for this 
classification? Some want to use numbers like the amount of air movements, 
other want a more subjective approach. And then there's the question of which 
tag to use (aeroway=airstrip, aeroway=small, importance=3...)

Discussion also over here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Airports#What_about_small_airstrips_that_shouldn.27t_be_given_the_same_prominence_on_the_map_as_major_airports.3F


* Tagging proposals (tagging@)

  * Fitness trails (in Flanders known as "Fit-o-meter")
    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:route=fitness_trail