[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Peter Elderson]

A parking lot can easily serve a residential area, an industrial area and a
forestry area at the same time.

Fr gr Peter Elderson


Op vr 5 feb. 2021 om 09:59 schreef Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de>:

> 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
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