[OSM-talk] Extend natural=shingle tag also for city stone areas.
Christoph Hormann
osm at imagico.de
Fri Aug 31 19:09:57 UTC 2018
(Note: since this is a tagging question this is in a way the wrong
group).
On Friday 31 August 2018, Tomasz Wc3b3jcik wrote:
> As we map different physical landcovers by eg. landuse=grass,
> landuse=forest, natural=sand, natural=water etc. There is
> theoretically no tag for urban areas covered by little stones like on
> this photo:
>
> ]...]
Urban area mapping in OSM is primarily functional - in case of your
example: If this is a walkable area (likely since it is easily
accessible and there are no signs forbidding it apparently) it would
probably be highway=pedestrian + surface=gravel/pebbles.
If it is not walkable it would be more like a japanese rock garden so
you could use leisure=garden + garden:style=rock_garden.
What you are suggesting here is essentially like the old mapping for the
renderer habit of tagging sand bunkers on golf courses natural=beach.
It would degrade the quality of the data of what is tagged
natural=shingle which fortunately at the moment is pretty good (since
it is a relatively young tag documented precisely from the beginning
and rendered in a way that supports correct use). So no, i would be
strongly against extending natural=shingle to urban areas artificially
covered with loose stones based on a physical similarity.
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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/
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