[Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-07-25 12:33 GMT+02:00 Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl>:

> Note that we do the same for highway: we didn't invent a new type
> highway=industrial or a new type highway=parking_aisle, because such roads
> wouldn't be rendered. Instead, we map all kinds of highways on a small
> fixed set of highway keys. I think we need a similar solution for landuse,
> and I think Mateusz' proposal helps to accomplish that.



I don't think that's a valid comparison, we have a very rough set of
landuses (e.g. a warehouse gets the same industrial landuse as a power
station or automotive production or a cabinet maker) while for just one
type of soil occupation (road) we have a myriad of tags and subtags. The
only reason we haven't yet invented highway=industrial is that there is no
such thing in the real world, it would be like proposing highway=lake for
cases when the road is aside a lake ;-)

cheers,
Martin
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