[Tagging] Dispute concerning shrimp pond dikes

[fly]

On 19/01/13 16:43, doug brown wrote:
> In the past couple of years I have spent several tens of hours digitizing the
> shrimp pond dikes in San Blas Municipio, Nayarit, Mexico.  They are a
> significant feature on the local landscape and of importance because of the
> degradation they are causing in the mangrove forest ecosystems in which they are
> located.
> 
> I was much dismayed this past summer when all of these features were deleted
> from the OSM data base (changeset 11807195), with the comment "Deleting
> vandalism, those are not roads".

About the reverter plugin was already talked. I only have to say that it has no
maintainer at the moment and several bugs but reverting a whole changeset works.

> The tags I used on these features are as follows:
> 
> access = private
Probably wrong if you are allowed to ride your bike or walk there. E.g. at least
add foot/bicycle=yes

> embankment = yes
> highway = unclassified
At least service if not only track or path

> man_made = dike
> name = shrimp pond dike
Wrong. Please use note= or description=

Additional you could add the ponds as nodes or closed ways:

natural=water
water=pond

Think there is also a landuse tag for water cultures.

Just my two cents
fly