[Talk-us] Gov't/military firing ranges --- not "sport"

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Sat May 8 15:39:37 BST 2010


On 5/8/10 9:40 AM, David Carmean wrote:
> I'm reluctant to tag civil/military gov't firing ranges as "sport".  I'd consider them
> more as hazardous areas to mark/avoid, but I don't know how to tag them as such.  Ideas?
>    
landuse=military
military=danger_area

and

landuse=military
military=range

are both documented in the wiki:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Military

i should think you would use danger_area even for inactive ranges, due 
to the potential for
unexploded munitions.

richard





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