[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 11:12:05PM -0500, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> So, landcover only has two values that have any meaningful amount of usage:
> 
> landcover=trees which overlaps with the overwhelmingly more popular
> natural=wood and landuse=forest
> landcover=grass which overlaps with the overwhelmingly more popular
> landuse=grass

I see landcover as a different issue:

You have industrial areas and some of it is just grass or still wood. 
So the whole area by its legal status is an industrial area so you 
tag it as a landuse=industrial.

Still the swaths of trees or grass can then be tagged with
"landcover=trees" oder "grass". 

landuse is more some kind of "legal" status of an area (We map it by
on the ground observation). Landcover describes its visual deviation
from its legal state.

I try to see OSM as a strict hierarchy. There should be partially
overlapping areas. Either a parking lot belongs to a retail area or 
it doesnt - so its either within or outside of the landuse=retail.
It shouldnt overlap.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
"Autoritaetsduselei ist der groesste Feind der Wahrheit" - Albert Einstein
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