[Tagging] cliffs and embankents or anything else

[Zecke]

Am 04.09.2014 15:55, schrieb Friedrich Volkmann:
> This is only possible if the man made embankment is inside a larger natural
> slope. So the embankment is not as notable a landscape component as compared
> to freestanding embankments in the plains.
I'm dealing with spoil heaps. These are man_made but that's not the 
problem here.
>
> Needs? No mapper that I am aware of is forced to map anything. They usually
> map what they believe is useful.
OK, don't want philosophical discussions. A spoil heap is often 
partially limited by more or less steep slopes. I want to map these 
because they are important landmarks. And a renderer should be able to 
render these appropriately.
> There are at least 3 aspects of that question:
> 1) The linguistic aspect: whether the word "embankment" suits 
> assymetric profiles. 
Yes. And I'd say so.
> 2) The syntactic aspect: what's the differece between embankment=yes 
> and =both?
That's a minor problem (I introduced "both" in my email to point out 
that it could be on either side of the line object).
> 3) The usage aspect: Do we really want to tag all mountain roads 
> embankment=left + cutting=right? Hey, we have DEMs nowadays, and 
> everybody knows that there are slopes on the mountains. 
I'm not speaking of roads (as is done in the wiki) but in more general 
terms of line objects. In fact I'm not dealing with roads. Any mapper is 
free to map as many details is he likes.

Cheers,
Zecke