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

David Carmean dlc at halibut.com
Sat May 8 18:16:47 BST 2010


On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 10:39:37AM -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
> 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.

Ah, ok; I think I made my question too generic; I actually want to map civil 
government (i.e. police) ranges 90% of the time.....






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