[Talk-GB] Tagging historic surface mining/streamworks

[ael]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 04:19:47PM +0100, Andy Townsend wrote:
> 
> On 8/29/21 12:58 PM, ael via Talk-GB wrote:
> > Any suggestions for tagging? I think that we need something new.
> > 
> I'd agree with that - the (often less historic) similar area in Derbys and
> Notts are similarly distinctive but we don't really have a good tag for
> them.
> 
> One thing that I would say is that it might be worth translating the
> comments on e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/106136137 to a
> language that matches that of the user (in this case "de").

>  I suspect that
> they just thought that you'd genuinely made a tagging mistake, and didn't
> appreciate the distinction that you were trying to draw.
 
Well there has been no reply to the changeset comment. I thought that
mass edits of this sort were supposed to be discussed - if it was a bot.
Otherwise, the mapper should have consulted with the original mapper
(me in this case) before changing it. Especially across borders.
Irritatingly, he/it also changed several other cases so I suddenly
noticed all these non-existant quarries all over parts of Bodmin Moor.

To be fair, my original tagging of landuse=surface_mining did suggest
ongoing mining activity.

Some sort of generic "disturbed_ground" tag would seem to fit, with
perhaps a subtag of "surface_mining". But natural and landcover
would then not be available to add scrub, grass, or areas of water
which are all commonly present. So I am hoping that someone will come
up with an idea.

I decided against posting to the tagging list because this seems
to be a distinctive UK feature, although no doubt there are examples
elsewhere. And we speak real^^^^ British English here :-)

> Maybe a diary entry, with a few photographs, would help explain things?

I am lazy and busy, but I think that this webpage for the Gonamena
streamworks might do:
https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Album/Photographs-Of-Gonamena-Tin-Streamwork_36312/

ael