[OSM-talk] Several approved features moved to Map_features page

[Tom Chance]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 18:13:56 Ben Robbins wrote:
> On the basis that there seems to be some agreement for the use of
> natural=grass, and the others (wich all exsist already), should I add this
> to the suggested tags page?.
>
> What would this Key be? or would the examples above be under different keys
> to each other..?  A village green may be listed after all. so status=listed
> place=village_green natural=grass access=yes landuse=lifestock
> leisure=playground may work.

I think we're making some progress here. We definitely need to split these 
things out into logical groupings, each covered by a tag. Currently items 
like "amenity=cinema", "leisure=common", "landuse=forest" but "natural=wood" 
and others seem to confuse the meaning of the different tags.

Here's a modification of your earlier proposal:

surface  = what the surface is, e.g. grass, woodland, forest...
access   = who can go on the land, e.g. public, private, common, permissive...
landuse  = what the land is used for, e.g. retail, allotments, livestock...
tourism  = tourist facilities, e.g. information, camp_site, theme_park...
leisure  = leisure facilities, e.g. playground, sports centre, cinema...
amenity  = other local facilities, e.g. parking, school, courthouse...

Then you have shop, sport and military as rather obvious tags that should 
hardly require explanation. By the way, "amenity" could cover anything said 
to be of tangible value to the area, but then it would be overly broad, so 
I've defined it as the stuff that's left over, the current remaining values 
seem somehow similar anyway.

I'm still stumped on where to put the village green, I'm tempted to say it 
should go in as a landuse, and allow for multiple values separated with a 
semicolon (e.g. "landuse=livestock;village_green").

Regards,
Tom

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