[Tagging] landuse=aquaculture with wateruse=aquaculture

Dave Swarthout daveswarthout at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 06:52:50 UTC 2017


I had completely forgotten the case of aquacuture in the ocean seeing as
I'm in Thailand at the moment. In my summer home, which is Alaska, there
are sizable ocean areas devoted to raising shellfish like oysters. The term
for this is mariculture but I don't think that would play well with
landuse.

Not sure what the best way forward from here would be.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12-Jan-17 11:19 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
>
> Here is Thailand there is a lot of aquaculture going on. Almost all of
> Thailand's fish and shellfish (shrimp, mussels, oysters, squid, cuttlefish)
> come from such farms and the countryside is littered with them. My practice
> has been to enclose the entire area including the ponds and buildings and
> tag it landuse=aquaculture. Then if I choose to take the time to trace out
> individual ponds within those areas, which I often decide not to bother
> doing, I would tag them as natural=water, water=pond.
>
> I honestly don't see the need for another top-level tag for this purpose.
> An aquaculture operation almost always involves some dry land, often quite
> a lot of it, and processing buildings so the landuse tag would seem
> perfectly suited in such cases.
>
>
> There are the ones in the sea .. well off the coast, others are located in
> rivers ... these would be navigation hazards. Not too concerned with ones
> on or even adjacent to land.
>
>
> My only other comment is that the use of natural=water to describe these,
> or any, man_made ponds or reservoirs has always seemed, well, unnatural
> (pun intended) but I think changing that tagging methodology at this point
> in time will never happen. LOL
>
> With you there .. the 'natural' key is a bad term. Its values should be
> split between landcover and landform. A landform of a peak, saddle etc
> could have a landcover of wood, grass etc.
>
> Humm possibly the landuse key is not what is wanted either ... as it is
> being used on water too ... possibly landuse should be humanuse ?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There are a number of instances of the tag landuse=aquaculture present on
>> water.
>>
>> Specifically landuse=aquaculture with produce=oyster.
>>
>>
>> I think these would be better tagged wateruse=aquaculture.
>>
>> The landuse tag may have been used as that is what is available on the
>> wiki and it may get rendered.
>>
>> Oysters are not the only aquaculture activities taking place on water ...
>> fish farms too where the fish are restrained in nets.
>>
>> e.g. https://theunderlined.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/mediterranean
>> -tuna-farm/
>>
>> And some crustaceans too.
>>
>>
>> While some aquaculture does take place on land (e.g. in tanks) .. the
>> larger installations are usually in water (sea, river, lake or dam).
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
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