[Tagging] landcover dune or land form dune

Leif Rasmussen 354lbr at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 02:34:38 UTC 2019


+1
Dunes can also have grasslands growing on the, which is a landcover, so
dunes being landcover would not make much sense.
Leif Rasmussen

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 7:12 PM Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
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> There is a wiki entry for 'landcover=dune'.
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover#Landcover_tags_and_related_tags
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> It has 0 uses in the data base.
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> There is an existing tag 'natural=dune'.
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Ddune
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> To me dune is a land form.
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> From the Oxford Dictionary "A mound or ridge of sand or other loose
> sediment formed by the wind, especially on the sea coast or in a desert."
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> So it is a mound or ridge ...ie a land form like a hill or a valley.
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