[Tagging] area=yes on object without kind

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Fri Jan 12 19:46:17 UTC 2018


I sometimes use surface=* as a stand-alone tag for areas with an unclear
or uninteresting purpose. Doing so captures the physical reality on the
ground pretty well in my opinion.

>From this point of view, the area in question is already tagged
correctly. Maybe we can find out what it's being used for, in which case
adding that information would further improve the data. But I don't
believe there should be a requirement to map the function of an area
before you can map the fact that it's covered with gravel.

On 12.01.2018 00:15, marc marc wrote:
> landcover=gravel

That would indeed be another possibility. It doesn't provide any new
information when compared with surface=gravel, though.



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