<div dir="auto">Not all land slides are rock slides. Some are mostly silt or loamy soil, so are often “mudslides”, e.g. in the Northwest Pacific coast of Canada and the US: <div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I would prefer “landslide” as a more general term.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Joseph Eisenberg</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:19 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:54 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<div>I am not exactly happy about "rock slide" as it seems weird to use it where<br></div><div>danger is primarily about individual rocks dropping, not about full scale rock slide.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Personally I would prefer "failing rocks" for warning used by a standard road<br></div><div>sign.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(difference is minor, but if we have luxury of selecting any value...)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Since we do have that luxury, and there is a valid reason for preferring terminology as actually signed, then we can adopt "hazard=falling_rocks" (53 usages) and deprecate "hazard=rockfall" (182 usages). These are small enough numbers that there shouldn't be any harm in choosing the smaller one.</div><div><br></div><div>Can we treat landslide and rock_slide as the same thing? If so, "hazard=rock_slide" has 394 usages and "hazard=landslide" has 35 usages. In that case, I would propose to adopt the more popular "rock_slide" and deprecate "landslide" as duplicate.</div><div><br></div><div>Would this address the concerns?</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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