[Tagging] Barrier=berm

[Warin]

Berms are also used in motocross.. and MTBs

Scroll halfway down this page 
https://www.dirtbikes101.com/arts/dirt-bike-riding-tips-corners.html

Looks like berm is a term used/misused for some different things.. may 
be best to use something else?



On 26/11/19 19:28, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> Graeme, please mark the page as proposal.
>
> I am not at all happy with "berm". It is unfortunately a term used for 
> a number of different things all related to earthworks.
> What is missing in OSM are clean-cut mapping possibilities for 
> (slopped) earth walls  and for (one-sided) slopes.
> Berm is neither of the two. In addition the main and original meaning 
> of berm is a step in the slope of an earth wall. See the first diagram 
> in the German Wikipedia page for Berme. 
> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berme>
> This photo 
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levee_of_the_River_Po.jpg> 
> shows one of the objects that I would like to map properly: A river 
> levee with two berms.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 03:59, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com 
> <mailto:daveswarthout at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The proposal looks good to me. Thanks for your effort.
>
>     On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 9:51 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick
>     <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Following the recent discussions of protective walls, I've
>         created a page for barrier=berm
>         https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dberm
>
>         As it is already in use 61 times, I didn't think we had to go
>         through the full RFC / voting procedure, but please correct me
>         if I'm wrong?
>
>         As always, comments & discussion welcomed! :-)
>
>         Thanks
>
>         Graeme
>         _______________________________________________
>         Tagging mailing list
>         Tagging at openstreetmap.org <mailto:Tagging at openstreetmap.org>
>         https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Dave Swarthout
>     Homer, Alaska
>     Chiang Mai, Thailand
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20191126/baa99598/attachment.html>