[Tagging] Tar sands tagging

[Dave Swarthout]

@Brian - Thanks for pointing that out. I haven't visited any of these
places in person nor am I likely to but that tagging seems to be
particularly useful in this situation. Furthermore, the Proposal discusses
the reservoir tag coupled with either tailing or tailing_pond  and
recommends not using it because typical reservoirs are associated with
water.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 8:46 AM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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