[Tagging] Can OSM become a geospacial database?

Joseph Eisenberg joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 23:08:17 UTC 2018


Re:
> “when you search for "water=lake" tag you don't necesseraly get "озеро"
(which is usually tranlated from Russian as "lake").

> So unless you have "озеро" in the name tag you will never find all these
objects which are called "озеро" in Russian.

Ok, so you’ve noticed that many lakes are tagged as natural=water only,
correct? It is recommended to add water=lake, but because natural=water is
sufficient to get a water area to render on most maps, I believe many
mappers don’t bother to add the more precise tags.

Re:
> “in Russian there are different types of man-made small bodies of water.
> “Will it work to denote them as water:RU=пруд and water:RU=копанка
instead of the generic water=pond?”

I don’t know Russian and Google Translate is not helping, but I would
recommend tagging all small man-made ponds as natural=water plus
water=pond. If пруд and копанка are two types of pond that can be clearly
distinguished, then you could try to translate these words and make up a
sub-category for ponds, eg pond=копанка or better pond=<копанка translated
into British English>, which could be added in addition to water=pond.

(Also note that larger artificial water bodies are called reservoirs in
English rather than ponds, so there is already one distinction)

Could you describe the physical difference between a пруд and a копанка?


On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:51 AM marc marc <marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Le 05. 12. 18 à 23:41, Eugene Podshivalov a écrit :
> > I did see that in France they put their local school categories into
> > "school:FR" tag but do you think this approach can be propogated for all
> > other categories?
>
> school:FR is a visible sign of a failure of the global proposal for
> school reform at the global level, so no, I really wouldn't advise
> to do it again.
> I think it is more interesting to try to find a global criterion to make
> subcategories, otherwise we end up with one osm per country instead of
> one global osm
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