[Tagging] key covered=* applied to storage tanks

António Madeira antoniomadeira at gmx.com
Fri Feb 3 17:12:44 UTC 2023



Às 07:59 de 03/02/2023, Warin escreveu:
> In my opinion, the cover=* key is the most adequate in these 
> situations, because there's no way to define what the roof/coverage of 
> these storage tanks would be if they had one.
>> Stating that a an emergency storage tank is covered=no informs that 
>> it can be accessible from above.
>> If, for example, we state that it has a roof=no, you're defining a 
>> specific kind of covering, when it has none and you have no way to 
>> know if that would be a roof, a tarp, a shed, etc.
>
>
> All the tanks on the OSM wijki page for man_made=storage_tank are 
> covered ..
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dstorage_tank
>

That's probably because this conversation never happened in the OSM 
community, or maybe because open storage tanks are not common and were 
not considered to be included in this tag.
Anyway, that shouldn't impede us to try and come up with an acceptable 
solution to this problem.



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