[talk-ph] tracing individual rice paddies

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

I think neither tag is appropriate. man_made=dyke doesn't seem to be
appropriate since a dyke's purpose is to prevent flooding, and these rice
paddy embankments do not do that.
On Aug 11, 2014 5:32 AM, "Erwin Olario" <govvin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> First of all, kudos to the volunteers working in the Lubao area[0] in
> Pampanga for the level of details they are adding to OpenStreetMap.
>
> I do wonder, however, if the appropriate tags are being used. In this
> case,  paddy field levees are being tagged as highway=path, when in fact
> they are primarily used as embankments, not as paths.
>
> Many of us here in the mailing list would consider Lubao as a local
> showcase for OpenStreetMap and perhaps, like me, would like it to show what
> "Philippine Mapping Convention" is like in real life.
>
> I normally use the following tags for rice paddies:
> landuse=farmland
> crop=rice
> farm=flooded_crops
>
> What are your thoughts about tagging ways between paddies as man_made=dyke
> [1] over highway=path ?
>
> [0] http://osm.org/go/4zOPCCmZg-?m=
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddyke
>
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