[Tagging] Tar sands tagging

[Dave Swarthout]

I'm reading a book about the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada and when I took a
look at the tags of several areas near Fort McMurray where the tar sand
(bitumin) is being mined, the tagging is very unusual:

industrial=oil_sands (Taginfo 30)
landuse=reservoir
reservoir_type=tailings (Taginfo 2305)

Except for the landuse=reservoir tag, which has long been deprecated, there
is nothing in the Wiki about the other two tags. I think the tagging could
be improved and made more meaningful by changing the landuse=reservoir tag
to landuse=industrial. This would be more accurate, fix the deprecated tag
issue, make it work better with the industrial=oil_sands tag, and prevent
renderers from displaying those areas as if they were water, which they are
not. Tar sands are as different from natural water as it is possible to be.

The industrial=oil_sands tag seems fine as does the reservoir_type=tailings
tag.

What do you think?



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Dave Swarthout
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