<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">@Brian - Thanks for pointing that out. I haven't visited any of these places in person nor am I likely to but that tagging seems to be particularly useful in this situation. Furthermore, the Proposal discusses the reservoir tag coupled with either tailing or tailing_pond and recommends not using it because typical reservoirs are associated with water.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 8:46 AM 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">If there is in fact a tailings pond there (and not something else mis-tagged as one), there is a tag man_made=tailings_pond specifically for that which was the subject of a 2021 proposal.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtailings_pond" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtailings_pond</a><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Tailings_pond" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Tailings_pond</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 12:37 PM Dave Swarthout <<a href="mailto:daveswarthout@gmail.com" target="_blank">daveswarthout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I'm reading a book about the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada and when I took a look at the tags of several areas near Fort McMurray where the tar sand (bitumin) is being mined, the tagging is very unusual:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">industrial=oil_sands (Taginfo 30)<br>landuse=reservoir<br>reservoir_type=tailings (Taginfo 2305)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Except for the landuse=reservoir tag, which has long been deprecated, there is nothing in the Wiki about the other two tags. I think the tagging could be improved and made more meaningful by changing the landuse=reservoir tag to landuse=industrial. This would be more accurate, fix the deprecated tag issue, make it work better with the industrial=oil_sands tag, and prevent renderers from displaying those areas as if they were water, which they are not. Tar sands are as different from natural water as it is possible to be.<br><br>The industrial=oil_sands tag seems fine as does the reservoir_type=tailings tag. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">What do you think?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dave Swarthout<br>Homer, Alaska<br>Chiang Mai, Thailand<br><div>Travel Blog: <a href="http://dswarthout.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://dswarthout.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Flickr: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/184600884@N06" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/184600884@N06</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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