[OSM-talk-be] landuse & highways

[Karel Adams]

Lionel, merci!

"landcover=" est du nouveau pour moi, faut que je regarde dedans!

Bien chaleureusement,


On 19/03/2019 20:07, Lionel Giard wrote:
> For what i understand, the landuse=grass is mostly a "landcover=grass" 
> tag which was never properly named (and thus it is used like that). 
> The surface=grass alone doesn't mean much in OSM as the surface tag is 
> (i think) only a secondary tag (adding information to other object 
> like highway=* ).
>
> For the original question, it seems indeed to be less accepted to 
> connect the landuse to the highway! And i find that it is so much 
> easier to edit when it is not connected to the highway (or to the 
> landuse on the other side) as it can just be directly moved without 
> splitting first. If you want to map the area of an highway there is 
> the proposal of tag "area:highway=*" that can be used but is not 
> rendered at the moment (see here : 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_area). 
> But it could in the future if the usage become more prevalent.
>
> Le mar. 19 mars 2019 à 19:55, Karel Adams <fa348739 at skynet.be 
> <mailto:fa348739 at skynet.be>> a écrit :
>
>     For what it is worth (and I do not think much of that, myself!):
>     the landuse tag is one of the most confusing and most misused.
>
>     In my self-assigned job of mapping aerodromes, and improving on
>     them, I often see tags like
>
>     landuse=grass
>
>     and that seems incorrect to me, it ought to be surface=grass rather
>
>     Correct usage of landuse includes (in my very personal
>     appreciation!) landuse=industrial, landuse=military,
>     landuse=commercial, landuse=recreational and more such. What that
>     means to the mapping of highways is beyond my comprehension; and,
>     to be frank, beyond my interest. I only wanted to give my opinion
>     on the general usage of the landuse= tag. Perhaps the best
>     application of the landuse tag to highways - but also to railways,
>     canals, aerodromes, &c, would be landuse=infrastructure or
>     landuse=public_infrastructure
>
>     NB wasn't there a dedicated mailing list about tagging?
>
>     For what it is worth,
>
>
>     On 19/03/2019 18:33, Stijn Rombauts via Talk-be wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     What are the opinions these days about landuse mapping: connect
>>     landuses to highways or let space between landuse polygons and
>>     adjacent highways? Is there a consensus or can everyone do
>>     whatever he/she likes?
>>     My opinion: I *hate* landuse connected to highways.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     StijnRR
>>
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