[Tagging] Barrier=berm
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Nov 26 08:45:04 UTC 2019
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.
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> 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
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