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

[Philip Barnes]

On Fri, 2014-07-25 at 16:28 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 
> 2014-07-25 11:16 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>:
>         I propose to reduce inventing new landuses and start making
>         subcategories whenewer possible.
>         
>         Recently I encountered landuse=plant_nursery,
>         landuse=salt_pond, 
>         landuse=greenhouse_horticulture and landuse=mine.
>         
>         I think that all of them are overly specific and should be
>         tagged as subcategories 
>         of more general landuses.
>         
>         [landuse=plant_nursery] (x4398) -> [landuse=farmland,
>         farmland=plant_nursery] (x980)
>         [landuse=salt_pond] (x4445) -> [landuse=industrial,
>         industrial=salt_pond] (x59)
>         [landuse=greenhouse_horticulture] (x19478) ->
>         [landuse=farmland, farmland=greenhouse_horticulture] (unused)
>         [landuse=mine] (x1005) ->  [landuse=industrial,
>         industrial=mine] (unused)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I partly agree. plant_nursery could indeed become a subtag of
> farmland, as could be greenhouse horticulture, but I do agree less for
> mining and salt_pond. landuse=mine is in line with landuse=quarry (for
> open pit mining it might be a subgroup of quarry?). salt_ponds could
> also be considered a subtype of farmland (maybe depends on the
> case/scale).
> 
In most cases I would go for retail for plant nurseries, they are
generally places that you go to buy plants for the garden. 

There are few that do not sell to the public. 

Phil (trigpoint)