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

[Stefan Tauner]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:06:11 +1000
Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 20:49, Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> >  
> 
> Sorry, Stefan, but why do you say that?
> 
> Why can't you have a forest on military ground?
> 
> I happen to have been to a military training / range area, which also has
> sheep grazing on it! No, I wouldn't also tag it as =farmland, but it could
> be.

Of course their can be a hardvested forest, a meadow, and sometimes
even residential areas and public streets within a landuse=military.
However, the basic idea of the landuse key is to "describe the primary
use of land". There can't be two primary uses. The sheep in your example
certainly do not get mown down by tanks regularly. ;)
Thus I think landuse should be tagged according to the rules we apply
to multipolygons - no crossing boundaries.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner