[OSM-talk] [RFC] tagging stones in the wild (erratic, balancing, boundary, stone age, artifact)

[Adam Schreiber]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz> wrote:
> Generic stone
> =============
> Just a stone in the wild without any known story.
>
> natural=stone (German wiki already documents this tag)
> optional:
> size=large (several tons), medium (can be moved by few people), small
> (can be moved by a single persons)
> count=number of stones (maybe size=large,medium count=1,5 could mean
> 1 large and 5 medium stones)

Typically on US orienteering maps, large rocks are marked as boulders
in the legend.  Natural=stone would make sense for large patches of
exposed stone though.

Cheers,

Adam