[Tagging] When was landuse=reservoir deprecated ?

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

> fly <lowflight66 at googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Having been away from this for a bit, I would propose:
>
>   Add a landuse=reservoir_protection (or some other name, not in use) to
>   be for the landuse of a parcel that is used for containing a reservoir
>   and protection zones.   (I have an attitude that landuse will often
>   align with parcel boundaries.)
>
>   Let landuse=reservoir be deprecated, because it's confusing.
>
>   Let water=reservoir be used, because it is not confusing.  That tag
>   denots the fact that the area is a) water and b) a reservoir, which is
>   object tagging, not landuse tagging.
>

+1

I agree that landuse=reservoir is confusing and we should use a different
tag for the water itself and a different tag that includes the surrounding
land area. Whether that land area is a landuse=* or not is something we all
still need to agree on.
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