[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Ground)

[Michael Montani]

Unfortunately I don't have photos of the terrain at the moment, but I will see if I can come back with some on the ground example.

For now, I put some example photos in the Talk page of the feature proposal<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Ground#Examples> . Feel free to leave a comment on any photo, e.g. whether or not you would it consider as soil. I would be also curious to know what tag would you use to map the ground of this kind of areas with the already existent tags.

Thanks,

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Da: Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de>
Inviato: venerdì 10 luglio 2020 12:00
A: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Ground)


Independent of what i already said in

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-July/053795.html

i am always wary of tags lacking any examples for on-the-ground mapping or a practically locally verifiable definition.  And defining a tag negatively trough the lack of something (vegetation) rather than positively through something that can be positively observed is problematic.  We have had this problem with natural=desert already (which some had defined equally though the absence of vegetation).

Overall as it stands this does not seem likely to become a successful and meaningful tag.  Maybe you can show some on-the-ground examples of areas you think this tag is suitable and needed for and get input from the wider community how they would suggest to characterize and tag such areas.

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