[Tagging] Tar sands tagging

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

If there is in fact a tailings pond there (and not something else
mis-tagged as one), there is a tag man_made=tailings_pond specifically for
that which was the subject of a 2021 proposal.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtailings_pond
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Tailings_pond

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 12:37 PM Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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