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

[Tod Fitch]

On Jul 26, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

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>> Am 26/lug/2014 um 14:04 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>:
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>> Scale is not relevant here, almost all industrial and farming activities are performed on large and small scale.
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> maybe there is a language problem, to me industrial implies division of labor, mechanization/automatisation and also a bigger scale (if there is only one worker then there should be at least a bunch of robots ;-) ), indeed I'd see the distinction between a bakery and a bread factory before all in the scale.
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Agree that scale should not be relevant. . .

In the American west there were and still are mines that are one person operations. Does it mean that they are not mining because they don't have a "industrial scale" business?. If there were a distinction between a small operation (bakery) and a large one (bread factory) it might be between "craft" and "industrial". I can see this could be used for other areas too like pottery, printing, etc.

But I was unaware that OSM cared about the size of the operation other than how to bound it with a polygon.

To me the gathering and refining of a mineral is a mining operation. Even if the gathering takes a bunch of flat land in a tidal area.

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