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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I have had a look on the Wallonia website. If you zoom out you will see that this feature runs exactly parallel to the road to the south of it. It is man made. It would have been created at the same time as the road. It was done to raise the road to a higher level as a flood defence against the river to the north. I do not know but it may be that there is a retaining structure of stone or concrete to strengthen it but is covered with soil and grass.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The tag for this could be <i>man_made=dyke</i> with <i>material=soil</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>You will see that the farmland to the south of the road has something similar. This is not flood defence, it is terraced farming to stop the run off of water on sloping farmland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The tag for this could be <i>barrier=retaining_wall</i> with <i>material=stone/soil</i> (or whatever material is used)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Hope this has been helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Ralph<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com">André Pirard</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, November 23, 2017 10:29 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:talk-be@openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap Belgium</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tag discussion, strategy and related tools</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk-be] how to map a fr:talus?</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 2017-11-23 17:26, joost schouppe wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2017-11-23 16:48 GMT+01:00 André Pirard <<a href="mailto:A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com" target="_blank">A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi,<br><br>I'm looking for how to map what is called in French a <a href="http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/talus" target="_blank">talus</a> (Google's translation).<br>I would call this a 1.8m simple step running for some reason for several 100s meters across meadows.<br>Steep slope. There are "top of slope" and "bottom of slope" lines. Rest is perfectly flat either side.<br>It might be the remnants of a old canal's bank whose other side would have been eroded by the often overflowing nearby river.<br>A "talus" made of plain ground is often frequent at one side of a path or track.<br>According to the wiki, it's not a "scree" nor a "shingle". It's much less matter specific.<br>So what?<br>I'll use "scree" unless/until I hear of better for a French talus.<br><br>Cheers <span class=hoenzb><span style='color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal>André.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm not entirely sure this is what you have in mind, but in the cases where it is associated with roads, I've seen historic=hollow_way (when the slope is caused by the fact that there's an old road), and "embankment" or "cutting" when the slope is deliberatly constructed. In other cases, I've seen what I think you describe mapped as natural=cliff, which is obviously wrong, but does get the message accross. For example where sand or rock was quarried this is common to see on the map. I'm hoping someone has seen better ideas.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Thanks for all your fast answers from which I had to choose the first one to reply to.<br>A photo was asked. I might go back there to make one, but you wouldn't see more that the surface of a meadow looking like this on a long distance, at varying steepness and width.<br> _________<br><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> /</span></tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br><tt> /</tt><br><tt>________/</tt></span><br><br><a href="http://geoportail.wallonie.be/walonmap#BBOX=233801.45736786586,233864.69291100363,138369.75440413086,138396.60966617474#SHARE=5EAB0363BC0C4A92E053D0AFA49D3CB8">It can be seen on this map share</a>, pan it to the left and right.<br>The two striped, faint lines are the upper and lower edges (rims, levels) from the <a href="wms:http://geoservices.wallonie.be/arcgis/services/TOPOGRAPHIE/PICC_VDIFF/MapServer/WmsServer?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&FORMAT=image/png8&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&SRS=%7Bproj%7D&WIDTH=%7Bwidth%7D&HEIGHT=%7Bheight%7D&BBOX=%7Bbbox%7D&LAYERS=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29">BE SPW(allonie) PICC numerical imagery</a> (JOSM) overlay allowing me to map it. As you zoom out, you will see that the aerial photo is darker along that line.<br>The Cartoweb background (Fond de Plan) draws it as the typical "behind which to hide" line of old military maps.<br>Well, in OSM parlance, it's not a cree because there is no cliff (1), not a shingle because there is no sea and not an embankment because there is no road to be an attribute of.<br>Well, as I said it, what I'm facing seems to be, as I found more specifically, the remnants of <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet_de_canal_Meuse_et_Moselle#N.C2.B012_Devant_Rosi.C3.A8res">this old canal @ N°12</a>. The river often overflows as high as above the road. When the water goes back, it washes the left bank of the canal towards the river but the right bank is mostly just overflown.<br><br>So, there's nothing in OSM for that precisely.<br>Would man_made=dyke be the most resembling and acceptable with an explanation note?<br><br>Thanks and TIA,<br>Cheers <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal>André.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>(1) there's a very beautiful one, but at the other side of the river, called "La Roche aux Faucons" (Falcons' Cliff).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>