[Tagging] Landfills timespan

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:32:05AM +0000, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> Mapping of things that cannot be verified on-the-ground has to be a very
> special case. Such as underground power cables.
> 
> A currently active landfill and a completed/capped-off landfill are not the
> same thing. One is verifiable on-the-ground, the other is not. One has a
> [surface] landuse of being a waste dump, the other has been returned to
> another landuse such as building or using as a park. Sure, under the
> surface there is some waste, but I don't believe the purpose of OSM is to
> map the subsurface.
> 
> Ex-landfills are notoriously difficult to spot and, in the UK at least,
> people just didn't keep records because "out of sight, out of mind".
> Geodata for ex-landfills is much prized in the property environmental risk
> industry.

Lately in my area old landfills from the 60ies and 70ies have been
opened again for maintenance. They are forest by now but all trees have
been removed beforehand. So those landfills are now observable.

I'd like to map them now - so i see the issue of mapping closed
landfills.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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