[Tagging] Proposed mechanical edit: surface=soil to surface=dirt

[Warin]

On 1/09/2015 6:23 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> Careful with a mass edit "soil" > "dirt"
>
> Have a look at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt - note that "soil" is one type of 
> "dirt" in this article
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground, which says that "ground", as 
> surface, is the same thing as "soil"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_%28disambiguation%29 defines 
> "earth" as a synonym of "soil" or "ground" (as surfaces)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt_road - note that the "dirt" of the 
> "dirt road" is soil
>
>
> 435000 surface=dirt
> 820000 surface=ground
> 22500 surface=earth
> 400 surface=soil
>
> If you feel the need to get rid of "soil" it should be changed to 
> "ground", not to "dirt". I would not change it at all if the same 
> mappers have used also any of the other tags in this group. This would 
> indicate to me that they had something specific in mind that is 
> escaping us.
>

For me soil as a road surface has the same meaning as dirt as a road 
surface. If a mapper (or a number of mappers) had something specific in 
mind for 'soil' they should document it, other wise another mapper may 
use it for something else.. or take it as an error and change it to dirt.

But ground and earth are not necessarily the same as dirt to me. 
'Ground' and 'earth' represent what is on the surface at that point. 
Across the Nullabour Plain there is a majority of dirt, but randomly 
there are limestone rocks, say every 100mm, some of them quite sharp .. 
keeps vehicle speeds down to 20 kmh. For 100s of km! So 'ground' and 
'earth' could be some mix of dirt, rocks, mud etc. And no I don't take 
the wikipedia as truth.