[Talk-GB] Landuse between fences?
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Wed Jan 1 09:21:11 UTC 2020
On 01/01/20 18:13, Martin Wynne wrote:
> On 01/01/2020 05:11, Warin wrote:
>
> I would map the area around the road as
>> landuse=highway.
>>
>> I would do the same for the lane/track between farm fields, while it
>> supports the use of the farm it is not a field.
>
> Thanks, but the problem is that landuse=highway is not a valid tag.
> Voting on it was suspended in 2013 after several votes against, see:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landuse%3Dhighway
>
> However, I have discovered that highway=track, *area=yes* is valid -
> as evidence of that it is rendered on the standard map as a light
> brown infill between the fences with the existing highway=track as a
> routable way superimposed over it, in darker brown.
>
> It seems odd to have highway=track twice, but if that's what it takes
> to have a meaningful mapping for an area of land, I'm happy to do it
> that way. Presumably the developers of the standard map know what they
> are doing.
>
> So I seem to have answered my own question, thanks all for the replies.
OSM - any tags you like. (that includes landuse=highway,
sport=cricket_nets etc)
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