[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - landuse=orchard

[Gustav Foseid]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com>wrote:

> That would mean that Mapnik needs to be checking a secondary field to
> determine what to display. If the renderer doesn't do that, you will end up
> with a map that is poorer in the end. In your case, that would mean
> increasing the size of the table produced by osm2pgsql by one extra column.
> Overall, you are increasing complexity with little or no benefits.
> I am not sure it makes sense in the end since were are getting exactly the
> same of information if you are using the tag directly in landuse.
>

If using farm as a base tag (or forest), you will make sure that thos not
interested in the details, still can use the data. To me that is a very
clear advantage.

You have two choices: Let those interested in detail check for details (two
tags) or require everyone to check for the details.

I fail to see any disadvantages of using landuse=farm + farm=orchard (or
something similar). Waisting a few bits in a database is simply not a
problem.

 - Gustav
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