I am now acutely aware how difficult it is to plan days outdoor when pets and little people are involved. OpenStreetMap has been immensely useful to me in planning walks with my family.
I recently started adding tag dog=yes/no/leashed to various features that I visit e.g. beaches, play areas, cafés and shops. I noticed that none of my phone applications presents this information. Is that right? On the phone I use Organic Maps and OsmAnd.
For OsmAnd there’s an issue on GH and it looks like it’s been fixed, but for this feature nothing is displayed?
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Also, I just noticed that dog tag has only a ‘de facto’ status and it has not been approved.
Don’t worry about that. The de facto status demonstrates that the dog=* tag has widespread usage an general acceptance amongst mappers. It’s the only scheme for tagging dog access and is used globally.
“approved” may have got support from few editors and be in fact a really bad tagging schema impossible to support or with minuscule support from mappers
Thanks, this is all really good pointers. taginfo is so informative! I didn’t notice the Project tab until now.
But am I to understand that only a particular value of the tag is used in the project? So in dog case, will it only render dog=designated, which presumably is for things like dog day cares, veterinary etc?
If this interpretation is right, then perhaps it’s a question of asking or contributing to the project itself as it would be useful to see if dogs are allowed, not allowed or outside only, particularly in food venues.
and maybe some feature that you are looking for is missing in OsmAnd - asking to add it or even making pull request may result in change there (but also note that OsmAnd has large pile of feature requests, if one exist then upvote it rather than making a new one)
You might also be interested in dog_gate=yes for stiles Tag:barrier=stile - OpenStreetMap Wiki My greyhound weighs 25kg and it isn’t very easily to carry her over a stile, so it is nice to know.
Really interesting. That’s something I could definitely use. I don’t understand though how it selects features of interest. For instance I added dog=yes to some pubs and also dog=no to some shops including bakeries that serve take away food, but this doesn’t appear here. How do I understand better what mapcomplete/pets does?
From a very quick look, it appears the theme highlights various categories of dog friendly amenity, but pubs don’t fall into any of the categories (unlike restaurants, say).
Yes that seems to be the case. But from what I can tell it also only shows dog friendly not dog unfriendly places. So you don’t really see whether a restaurant has been tagged yet or if dogs are not allowed.
you can always create a new issue Issues - MapComplete/MapComplete - Forgejo
Best have the right Tags available so, its less work for people trying to integrate changes
For me OsmAnd shows dogs allowed for a restaurant I checked.
I’m a little disappointed though because even though it shows it, you can’t filter POI for it atm
Taginfo suggests a few. One of those is one of mine; the Garmin maps here append “doglead” in brackets to the names of paths that require dogs to be on leads (and “nodog”) for no dogs at all.
The script that creates those maps just takes a Geofabrik download, so any area from there with primary latin-character names would also work, up to a couple of GB in size at least.
