[OSM-talk] Extend natural=shingle tag also for city stone areas.

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 31. Aug 2018, at 21:09, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> 
> 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.


+1 (and area=yes obviously)


> 
> If it is not walkable it would be more like a japanese rock garden so 
> you could use leisure=garden + garden:style=rock_garden.


+0.7 it’s a bit a stretch to call this a garden, as it is not exactly the same as a japanese rock garden. There’s no tradition of rock gardens in Europe AFAIK, so the ones that are there are usually imitations of japanese gardens 



> 
> 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


completely agree, the tag is not applicable at all, -1 to changing the wiki as proposed by the OP

Generally, this is clearly a tagging question and would better be discussed on the tagging ml.

Cheers,
Martin