[Tagging] Is landuse=winter_sports a ‘de facto’ tag for ski areas?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 7, 2021, 11:46 by stefan.tauner at gmx.at:

> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 11:29:23 +0100 (CET)
> Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > No, the ways themselves should not overlap. One area might be enclosed
>> > by another one. The better word than overlap would have been intersect.
>> > Just like with outers of MPs.
>> > 
>> This is also a valid tagging.
>>
>> Forest and military area may partially overlap.
>>
>> Industrial and military area may overlap
>> (industrial area for factory and port, that is partially also military base
>> that includes non-port area)
>>
>> landuse=forest and landuse=military
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/54.5543/16.6671
>>
>> landuse=construction may have wild overlaps with nearly everything,
>> without being fully inside
>>
>> Long landuse=flowerbed may be both in landuse=retail and landuse=residential
>>
>> etc
>>
>
> "areas partly overlapping other areas should be avoided" says the wiki.\
>
Then wiki is wrong and should be fixed (this is not unusual).

It is probably on some page like Key:landuse claiming that some simple
definition/rule applies to OSM tagging despite evidence to contrary.

> All examples you gave are simple errors in either the tagging schemes
> or the application thereof and very clearly show how broken some of the
> landuse value are.
>
Even if you consider landuse=construction, landuse=forest, landuse=military
landuse=flowerbed as mistakes - OSM Wiki is describing actually existing tagging
scheme not some theorethical ideal without this tags.
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