<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">> when (how deep) does a rock overhang / shelter become an actual cave? :-)</span></font></p><div>Some judgement is needed, but the ones I've seen are pretty clear cut as being one or the other.</div><div><br></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dshelter" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dshelter</a> just says "A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter_(building)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Shelter (building)" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background:none">shelter</a> is small place to protect against bad weather conditions." which is mostly what these overhangs are used for, so I think it's the appropriate tag. If that shelter is frequently used as a camp site (now, not just historically) then can be tagged tourism=camp_site with a few extra tags from <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism=camp_site" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism=camp_site</a> to help distinguish this small camp site from the larger ones.</p></div><div><br></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Is "not meant for sleeping, no cooking or heating equipement inside" supposed to be a criteria for a shelter?</span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">I would say no. We should tag the rock overhang for what it is, and use tourism=camp_site to say if it's commonly used for sleeping too.</span></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 08:07, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@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 dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1561704519190141757gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 at 18:14, Andrew Harvey <<a href="mailto:andrew.harvey4@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.harvey4@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 dir="ltr">Rock overhangs (rock shelters) have been quite extensively mistagged in Australia as natural=cave_entrance.<div><br></div><div>Are there any objections to re-tagging these overhangs tagged as natural=cave_entrance to amenity=shelter + shelter_type=rock_shelter?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No real objection, Andrew, but when (how deep) does a rock overhang / shelter become an actual cave? :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Also noticed in the discussion comments on </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 dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shelter_type" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shelter_type</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Can you look if this could be tagged as a shelter ?</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="gmail-m_1561704519190141757external gmail-m_1561704519190141757gmail-free" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Champlitte,_%C3%A9craigne.jpg" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);padding-right:13px" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Champlitte,_%C3%A9craigne.jpg</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tounoki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_1561704519190141757gmail-new" title="User:Tounoki (page does not exist)" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:none;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(165,88,88)" target="_blank">Tounoki</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">(</span><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Tounoki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_1561704519190141757gmail-new" title="User talk:Tounoki (page does not exist)" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:none;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(165,88,88)" target="_blank">talk</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">) 14:16, 21 April 2013 (UTC)</span></div><dl style="margin-top:0.2em;margin-bottom:0.5em;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><dd style="margin-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.1em;margin-right:0px">If it is open to the public, not meant for sleeping, no cooking or heating equipement inside, then yes, you could use <tt dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1561704519190141757gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:1em;direction:ltr;background:rgb(238,238,255);line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:amenity" title="Key:amenity" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">amenity</a>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dshelter" title="Tag:amenity=shelter" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">shelter</a></tt> +<tt dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1561704519190141757gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:1em;direction:ltr;background:rgb(238,238,255);line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shelter" title="Key:shelter" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">shelter</a>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:shelter%3Dweather_shelter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_1561704519190141757gmail-new" title="Tag:shelter=weather shelter (page does not exist)" style="color:rgb(165,88,88);background:none" target="_blank">weather_shelter </a>"</tt></dd></dl><div>Is "<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">not meant for sleeping, no cooking or heating equipement inside" supposed to be a criteria for a shelter?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Some of the overhangs I've seen are pitch black underneath from many thousands of years of cooking fires, & are acknowledged as places that Aboriginal peoples camped during bad weather - does that mean they're not shelters? (although I don't know what else they would then be?)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div>
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