[Tagging] More tagging questions

Craig Wallace craigw84 at fastmail.fm
Fri May 7 21:25:28 BST 2010


On 07/05/2010 21:09, Jonas Minnberg wrote:
>
> In Sweden we have special barriers in the ground that only larger
> vehicles can pass, meant to allow buses but not normal cars - is there a
> tag for such a thing or should I make one up?

barrier=bus_trap
it's listed on the Key:barrier page, but without any description. Though 
I assume its for something like a bus trap, as described on Wikipedia: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_trap

> Is there a a good way to define the area covered by school grounds? The
> examples and documentation about education tags seems to only apply to
> nodes or individual buildings - I would like something like
> landuse=school, which would also be a good place to put the name of the
> school.

The tag amenity=school is intended for the whole area of the school and 
its grounds. You can also map the school buildings, sports pitches etc 
within this.
This is clearly stated on this page: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dschool
So I'm not sure which examples or documentation you are referring to.

> Should the cliff-tag be used even for smaller drops? I've seen it used
> in residential areas where bare rock can be seen, but where the
> height-difference is small enough to jump up on it without using your hands.

Maybe, I don't know if there's any better tag for that. You can also 
specify how high it is with the height=* tag.


Craig




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