[Tagging] land cover/surface=* tagging Re: Landuse border alignment

[John Smith]

On 15 May 2010 13:37, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> the thing is: the amount of different values makes it already hard to
> actually use these e.g. in bicycle-routing (there is x types of paving
> stones, ...). When this started there were only 2-3 values: paved,
> unpaved and cobblestone. Untill now there are 22 different values. If
> we add another 100 landscape-surface values, and people add those to
> highways, it will be even harder.

But they aren't just for highways, that was the whole point of stating
land cover, such as back yards being grass... And I don't think you
route through back yard gardens...

> the ones usually used for non-highways are these (probably to be extended):
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Natural

This was already covered in another thread, at which point I think Roy
updated one or more of the surface=* tags to be applicable to other
things, such as golf bunkers aren't natural=beach, they are
surface=sand and so on and so forth...