[Tagging] Oil fields - how to tag?

[Christoph Hormann]

On Sunday 15 October 2017, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> I agree that tagging the entire lease area as landuse=industrial is
> not correct. Part of the reason for posting is that I'm looking for
> alternative ways to tag the large lease areas. Is there a boundary
> tag that someone can suggest?

I am not sure if - unless there is a fence - this can be considered 
verifiable.  In OSM we don't map land ownership or land use rights and 
we only map boundaries if they are meaningful to normal people (which 
is usually the case for administrative boundaries or nature reserves).  
A mining claim or oil drilling rights do not seem to qualify since - as 
i understand it - you may still do anything in the area you may do 
elsewhere (other than drilling of course).

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