[HOT] The tag landuse = clearing

[althio]

Hi Warin,

You could try also to get in touch there:
https://tasks.teachosm.org/project/417
Tab "questions and comments"

Cheers

-- althio


On Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 05:42 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> The tag “landuse=clearing” was extensively used in Costa Rica by
> #hotosm-task-417 #YouthMappers #TexasTech during November 2017, mapping
> around Parque Nacional Coicovado in Costa Rica.
>
> Unfortunately this tag is not documented on the OSM wiki, I have started
> to document what I think it is and looks like from some satellite imagery.
>
>
> The proposal page to document the possible tag can be found here
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landcover%3Dclearing.
>
> There are several suggestions as to how to map these things better- with
> more information and some should result with rendering on maps.
>
>
> However, my questions are;
>
> Do HOT use the tag at all for there own purposes?
>
> Will there be any problems and/or objections to changing
> ‘landuse=clearing’ to “landcover=clearing” ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts on the subject.
>
>
>
> PS I note that many of these ways introduced have touching rings and
> duplicate segments. I have edited many of them so they now don’t generate
> errors on OSMinspector see
> https://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=areas&lon=-83.46332&lat=8.53010&zoom=11
> <https://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=areas&lon=-83.46332&lat=8.53010&zoom=11>
>
> I have not touched the north eastern coastal area so you can see the
> problems.
>
> PPS I am motivated to keep land cover things out of the land use key,
> hence my personal interest in this tag.
>
>
>
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