[OSM-talk] Building Site - landuse=construction

[Ulf Lamping]

John McKerrell schrieb:
> Link might be useful:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Building_site
>
> On 9 Dec 2007, at 11:13, John McKerrell wrote:
>   
>> The Building Site tag has passed through voting now with 8 approvals
>> and no disapprovals. Blackadder did express concern that
>> "construction" could be an ambiguous term, but I think when coupled
>> with "landuse", it's ok. If you meant it as a noun, i.e. "a
>> construction", then you wouldn't use landuse (and in fact you'd
>> probably use building=yes). We can always put put words to that
>> effect on the map features description.
>>
>> So, if I don't get any major flames in response to this email I'll
>> add this new tag to the map feaures page and look at getting it
>> rendered.
>>     
Sh.. that one slipped through ...

Yes, I have a major concern about this proposal, basically the "under 
construction" concept is very certainly not limited to landuse!

There are three more or less identical proposals which should be solved 
here (or at least we should have an idea to solve it):

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Building_site
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Construction 
(which is more or less identical to Building_site - probably page should 
simply be deleted)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Road/Rail_under_construction 
(construction of railway / highway)

So at least we have basically the same situation for railways and 
highways being under construction (and probably much more?). I don't 
know if this should be tagged with highway=construction, 
railway=construction and probably a lot more such tags, or if it would 
be better to have highway=primary, under_construction=yes (or something 
like that). In most of the cases you'll probably know what the 
construction will end up.


What I would like to avoid here is putting some "construction concept" 
for landuse into map features where we already know won't fit well into 
other construction sites ...

Regards, ULFL