[OSM-talk] Rocky beaches

[Matt Williams]

On Monday 14 April 2008 13:46:34 Steve Hill wrote:
> I'm attempting to trace some of the Gower coastline from the (very fuzzy)
> Yahoo images.  But I'm not sure how to tag beaches made up of flat rock.
>
> For example, the type of thing shown by this Google aerial view:
>  
> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=51.5615
>98,-4.302907&spn=0.003855,0.015836&t=h&z=16 And photograph of the same
> location:
>   http://www.nexusuk.org/photos/other/gower/2006/04/15/img_3465/view
>
> I don't really want to tag it with just natural=beach since that would
> imply a sandy/shingle beach (i.e. something nice for bathing on), but I
> can't really see an appropriate tag.

From the proposal at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Water_cover it 
seems that natural=beach, surface=rocky (or surface=rock?) and optional 
water=tidal tag if you feel like it :)

Regards, 
Matt Williams
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