[talk-ph] tagging questions

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 08:02:52 UTC 2013


For animal husbandry, I think we can use livestock=cattle/poultry/fish/etc.

So a chicken farm can be landuse=farm; livestock=poultry; poultry=chicken
(as opposed to poultry=turkey/duck/etc.)


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:29 PM, maning sambale <
> emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Landuse
>> - How to map adjacent landuse types?  For those separated by roads, do
>> we use the same nodes as the other landuse?  I personally prefer to
>> separate the landuse areas if there is a road but I'm open to other
>> suggestions.
>>
>
> If the landuses are separated by a fence (like between 2 subdivisions), we
> can use common nodes.
>
> If the landuses are separated by a road, the landuses should not touch
> each other nor the road.
>
>
>> - Is it better to use relations? From a data perspective landuse
>> polygons should be relation multipolygons however, the concept of
>> using relations is very hard to teach for newbies?
>>
>
> I think that relations are the future but simple polygons will do for the
> meantime.
>
>
>> What tag to use for:
>> - Fishponds (currently we use landuse=farm; crop=fish)
>>
>
> There's landuse=pond:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dpond
>
> I would use this (landuse=pond) to tag the whole area that contains ponds.
> Individual ponds will be tagged as natural=water; water=pond
>
> crop=fish sounds wrong. We don't plant fish!
>
>
>> - Poultry farms
>>
>
> No idea
>
>
>> Waterway tagging
>> - Difference between rivers, streams and irrigation canals
>>
>
> The definition on the OSM Wiki is that a stream can be jumped across by an
> able-bodied person. Otherwise it's a river.
>
>
>
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