<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It's probably not being used as such but rice are flood crops and the wiki page for dyke states it as "an embankment built to *restrict the flow of water or other liquids*" , which in this applies to restricting the water within the paddies.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Is there a more appropriate tag?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Erwin Olario</font></b></div>
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#999999">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#999999">»</font><font color="#ff6633"> </font>email:<font color="#000000"> <a href="mailto:erwin@ngnuity.net" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">erwin@</a></font><a href="http://ngnuity.net/" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9900"><b>n</b></font><font color="#0066cc"><b>gnu</b></font><b><font color="#9900ff">IT</font></b><font color="#ff9900"><b>y</b></font><font color="#000000"><b>.</b></font><font color="#ff9900"><b>net</b></font></a><font color="#000000"> </font><span style="color:rgb(255,102,51)">|</span><font color="#000000"> <a href="mailto:govvin@gmail.com" target="_blank">govvin@gmail.com</a></font></font><div>
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#999999">»</font><font color="#ff6633"> </font>mobile: (PHL): +63 908 817 2013</font></div><div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font><font color="#999999">»</font><font color="#000000"> </font></font>OpenPGP key: 3A93D56B <span style="color:rgb(255,102,51)">|</span> 5D42 7CCB 8827 9046 1ACB 0B94 63A4 81CE 3A93 D56B</font></div>
</div></div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com" target="_blank">seav80@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">I think neither tag is appropriate. man_made=dyke doesn't seem to be appropriate since a dyke's purpose is to prevent flooding, and these rice paddy embankments do not do that.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Aug 11, 2014 5:32 AM, "Erwin Olario" <<a href="mailto:govvin@gmail.com" target="_blank">govvin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div class="h5">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">First of all, kudos to the volunteers working in the Lubao area[0] in Pampanga for the level of details they are adding to OpenStreetMap. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I do wonder, however, if the appropriate tags are being used. In this case, paddy field levees are being tagged as highway=path, when in fact they are primarily used as embankments, not as paths.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Many of us here in the mailing list would consider Lubao as a local showcase for OpenStreetMap and perhaps, like me, would like it to show what "Philippine Mapping Convention" is like in real life.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I normally use the following tags for rice paddies:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
landuse=farmland<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">crop=rice</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">farm=flooded_crops</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What are your thoughts about tagging ways between paddies as man_made=dyke [1] over highway=path ?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">[0] <a href="http://osm.org/go/4zOPCCmZg-?m=" target="_blank">http://osm.org/go/4zOPCCmZg-?m=</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
[1] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddyke" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddyke</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Erwin Olario</font></b></div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#999999">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </font><div>
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#999999">»</font><font color="#ff6633"> </font>email:<font color="#000000"> <a href="mailto:erwin@ngnuity.net" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">erwin@</a></font><a href="http://ngnuity.net/" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9900"><b>n</b></font><font color="#0066cc"><b>gnu</b></font><b><font color="#9900ff">IT</font></b><font color="#ff9900"><b>y</b></font><font color="#000000"><b>.</b></font><font color="#ff9900"><b>net</b></font></a><font color="#000000"> </font><span style="color:rgb(255,102,51)">|</span><font color="#000000"> <a href="mailto:govvin@gmail.com" target="_blank">govvin@gmail.com</a></font></font><div>
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#999999">»</font><font color="#ff6633"> </font>mobile: (PHL): <a href="tel:%2B63%20908%20817%202013" value="+639088172013" target="_blank">+63 908 817 2013</a></font></div>
<div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font><font color="#999999">»</font><font color="#000000"> </font></font>OpenPGP key: 3A93D56B <span style="color:rgb(255,102,51)">|</span> 5D42 7CCB 8827 9046 1ACB 0B94 63A4 81CE 3A93 D56B</font></div>
</div></div></div></div>
</div>
<br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
talk-ph mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:talk-ph@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-ph@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>