[Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

[Craig Loftus]

> If someone puts up a wiki page with the proposed tagging scheme, I will set
> up a renderer for it.

Okay. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Breweries

I've tried to distil the suggestions from the whole thread copying the
structure of Graham's Historic Britain project.

My main remaining concern is the invention of the industry key.

Perhaps we can now take the discussion to the talk page and stop
spamming the inboxes of the teetotallers?

Craig

On 5 November 2011 21:48, Graham Jones <grahamjones139 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It might be better to use building=mill/press/barn? As I think the
>>
>> building=* key is loosely supposed to represent the design of the
>> building rather than what people do inside it.
>>
>> We still need a multi *use* convention though. Taking craft=*, the
>> documented style would see us use semi-colon separation, "craft=cider;
>> perry", but perhaps we could use a  more 'modern' style like
>> "craft:cider=yes; craft:perry=yes"?
>>
> I know that tagging for the renderer is frowned upon, but I really do not
> like all these colons in key names, because (as far as I know) that means
> having an extra column in the database produced by osm2pgsql for
> rendering....and every time I want to add an extra column it means an entire
> re-import of the databse.
> Therefore I would be much keener on craft = [beer|cider|perry] with whatever
> separator you  would like between them than craft:cider=yes etc.
> The other thing that I thought of is that 'craft' sounds like a sensible tag
> for microbreweries, but maybe not for a bit industrial one - maybe use
> craft= for microbreweries and industry= for bigger ones, then we can render
> them differently?
> If someone puts up a wiki page with the proposed tagging scheme, I will set
> up a renderer for it.
>
> Graham.
>
>
>
> --
> Graham Jones
> Hartlepool, UK.
>