[Tagging] Beaches

[John Smith]

On 12 April 2010 07:50, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Suggestions? As is, you can't use surface because that's only for
> "roads/footpaths" (although strangely it's also used for

Why does the surface tag have to be limited to roads/footpaths?

> leisure=pitch's - seems the wiki needs updating). And landuse is
> perhaps problematic for the reasons I mentioned before (i.e. overlap
> with "natural"). Although, landuse=sand would be analogous to the
> current use of landuse=grass.

landuse=sand might be suitable for a sand mine, but the term landuse
to me indicates what it's being used for, not what covers the "ground"
eg landuse=residential etc has no relation to the top soil

> leisure=pitch
> + sport=volleyball (or beach_volleyball, I would suggest)
> + surface=sand (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dpitch)

You are contradicting what you said earlier about surface...

> I'd suggest natural=desert (+ maybe surface=sand). Strangely abandoned
> old proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Deserts

Seemed like a reasonable proposal, but I didn't check on usage.