On Feb 9, 2008 7:45 AM, bvh <<a href="mailto:bvh-osm@irule.be">bvh-osm@irule.be</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:32:01AM -0800, Karl Newman wrote:<br>> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:30:07PM +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:<br>> > > i think landuse = row_of_trees or whatever was suggested, is a hideous<br>
> > > abuse of the landuse tag. landuse isn't there as a dumping ground for<br>> > > things that taggers can't be bothered to categorise properly<br>> ><br>> > I agree.<br>> ><br>
> > > there is a tag proposal called natural=life, which may be the way to<br>> > > go with this, but it's not finalised yet<br>> ><br>> > Since trees lining a way/street are such a common occurence, why<br>
> > not have a simple additional tag to the main road.<br>> ><br>> > lined_by_trees=yes/no/left/right<br>> ><br>> > Or do you really want to propose to add three seperate ways for<br>> > something like this<br>
> > <a href="http://www.cubra.nl/bomen/boomvandeweek/elsendorptammekastanje/oprijlaan.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.cubra.nl/bomen/boomvandeweek/elsendorptammekastanje/oprijlaan.jpg</a><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
> Really, it's just a divider. Does it matter that there's trees on it? If it<br>> were made of concrete, it would just be ignored (except inasmuch as it<br>> causes the street(s) to be divided into parallel ways). I doubt anybody<br>
> would propose that we create a separate way for it. Or is someone planning<br>> to make a super-nifty 3D map view with trees along the road? (That would be<br>> cool...)<br><br></div>Read the thread again. Yes people are proposing to tag that line of<br>
tree as a seperate way with landuse=row_of_trees. And yes I agree<br>with you that is ridiculous. Hence the rethorical nature of my question.<br><br>cu bart<br></blockquote></div><br>I was just questioning whether we need to tag it at all, separate way or no... Heresy, I know. "In OSM, we tag EVERYTHING!"<br>
<br>Karl<br>