[Tagging] What key for animal related "amenities"?

Martin Vonwald imagic.osm at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 10:16:17 GMT 2013


2013/1/15 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
>> I'm looking for a better key than amenity for any animal related
>> feature. For example I want to tag a horse walker [1]. I could use
>> amenity=horse_walker but this key is already flooded with pretty
>> everything. Any ideas for a better key?
>
>
> IMHO animal is a good key for this, but you could also use one of the others like amenity, man_made, building, leisure ;-)

Actually I think that animal is a rather bad key for this. To me this
would name the animal the feature is related to. Taginfo also tells us
that the main use of this key is the value "yes". The other values are
a mixture of features and animals. So not really a clear idea behind
this key.

regards,
Martin



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