[Tagging] Landcover... not again?....!

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Sat May 7 10:06:40 UTC 2022


On 6/5/22 23:26, Peter Elderson wrote:
> I'm not suggesting any deprecation. Just an idea to add a natural, 
> intuïtive and easy way to tag existing land use with different land 
> cover. Say, grass on a railway area. I'm running into this kind of 
> issue every time I do some tagging in my neighbourhood.
>
> Without adding new keys, using elements already present. no 
> deprecations or retaggings, just a refinement,  and not 
> requiring any intricate handling.
>
> I see even this revives several trench wars. Sorry I asked!


Unfortunately most are fixed into their trenches and won't consider change.


landuse=grass is one that is stuck firmly in a very deep hole! If that 
can be moved I'd be very impressed. It is a far larger obstacle and 
leads to other covers being accidentally tagged as land use, and then 
repeated by that mapper. Teaching new mappers landuse=grass but not to 
use it for other land covers just confuses them.


I don't see much to be gained by adding natural=trees when natural=wood 
looks to be much the same thing - trees.


I don't see the landcover key being much of a problem - most of these 
would be dual tagged - landcover as a sensible key the other is simply 
tagging for the render.


>
> Peter Elderson
>
>
> Op vr 6 mei 2022 om 14:16 schreef Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging 
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org>:
>
>
>
>
>     May 6, 2022, 12:24 by pelderson at gmail.com:
>
>         It's going off in all directions again...
>
>         I asked:
>         What about the idea of supporting the proposed landcover
>         values to the natural key?
>
>         That is: for the natural key, support the values grass and trees.
>
>     deprecating landuse=grass and replacing it with natural=grass?
>     I see no real benefit here.
>
>     The same goes to adding third confusing synonym to landuse=forest
>     and natural=wood (to close to natural=tree)
>
>         It just solves the issue that you can't map land cover and
>         land use for the same feature if landuse is used for land cover.
>
>     there is no such issue, you can map this with overlapping areas
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Tagging mailing list
>     Tagging at openstreetmap.org
>     https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tagging mailing list
> Tagging at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20220507/641902d8/attachment-0001.htm>


More information about the Tagging mailing list