[Tagging] When was landuse=reservoir deprecated ?

fly lowflight66 at googlemail.com
Sat Jun 8 16:56:42 UTC 2013


Am 07.06.2013 15:49, schrieb Greg Troxel:
> 
> Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 2013/6/6 Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com>
>>
>>> We have gotten several notes reported from craigslist users saying "this
>>> lake is missing from the map" but I think it turns out that craigslist is
>>> not rendering landuse=reservoir so unless lakes have natural=water they
>>> don't show up on the CL maps. Just another rendering oddity I guess.
>>
>> If you agree that landuse=reservoir doesn't necessarily need to be water on
>> the whole area, then it seems logical to require a water-tag on the actual
>> water covered area to render "blue". As long as the main style puts so much
>> emphasis on landuse people will continue to map areas mainly with landuse
>> and use very less frequent the physical tags which are not rendered.
> 
> This essentially was the point I was trying to make: when humans see
> landuse=reservoir, they think it means different things
> 
>   1) parcel containing protection zone and water, arguably to be shaded
>   some light green natural/protected.  should have water=reservoir on
>   the actual water, to be blue
> 
>   2) what is water=reservoir in 1, and thus should be blue
> 
> That's why I suggested landuse=reservoir_protection instead, but that
> should include the water so it's not right etiher.
> 
> I'm fine with landuse=reservoir, but then as always it needs to be clear
> and renderers need to catch up.

But how to we proceed ?

If we agree that landuse=reservoir should be used for the whole area. Do
we need a temporary tag or adding water=reservoir to all of them?

Only simple case are where a water=reservoir is already tagged (either
on the same object or within one.

Cheers
fly



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