Re: [Tagging] Advice & clarification of the railway tracks=* tag required.

2012-08-13 Thread Dave F.
On 10/08/2012 23:30, Richard Mann wrote: I've added track_detail=yes in places where there are tracks>1 tags but the lines are separately drawn. I've included some that have been there for a while. I've contacted the only people who I'm aware that use the tracks data (itoworld) to see if deleti

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/13 John F. Eldredge : > > Yes, if animals are intended to graze on the grass, if the grass will be > harvested for use as fodder (what my earlier message termed a hay field), or > if sod will subsequently be transplanted elsewhere (a sod farm), then the > grass is being grown as a crop, a

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread John F. Eldredge
Volker Schmidt wrote: > > Still "grass" > > doesn't become a landuse. > > > > I woul dnot agree with this statement. In many areas of the world, > grass is > grown and harvested as (winter) fodder for animals. According to > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse this is tagged as > landuse

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/13 Volker Schmidt : > I woul dnot agree with this statement. In many areas of the world, grass is > grown and harvested as (winter) fodder for animals. According to > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse this is tagged as landuse=grass IMHO the general landuse=farmland would make mo

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Volker Schmidt
> Still "grass" > doesn't become a landuse. > I woul dnot agree with this statement. In many areas of the world, grass is grown and harvested as (winter) fodder for animals. According to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse this is tagged as landuse=grass If the grass is used for grazing, t

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread John F. Eldredge
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2012/8/13 Kytömaa Lauri : > >>according to the wiki, for "smaller areas of mown and managed grass > >>for example in the middle of a roundabout, verges beside a road or > in > > > >>So this isn't actually a tag for every spot where you can find > grass, > >>but it is

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/13 Kytömaa Lauri : >>according to the wiki, for "smaller areas of mown and managed grass >>for example in the middle of a roundabout, verges beside a road or in > >>So this isn't actually a tag for every spot where you can find grass, >>but it is a tag for "auxiliary" areas dedicated to traf

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Kytömaa Lauri
>according to the wiki, for "smaller areas of mown and managed grass >for example in the middle of a roundabout, verges beside a road or in >So this isn't actually a tag for every spot where you can find grass, >but it is a tag for "auxiliary" areas dedicated to traffic. It reads "for example" ab

Re: [Tagging] Advice & clarification of the railway tracks=* tag required.

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/11 Richard Mann : > I've added track_detail=yes in places where there are tracks>1 tags but the > lines are separately drawn. I've included some that have been there for a > while. > > I've contacted the only people who I'm aware that use the tracks data > (itoworld) to see if deleting the t

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
On 08/13/12 11:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, the FAO system seems quite elaborated (might be too detailed/complicated/long for OSM, not sure, Anything used for OSM must enable someone who knows shit about biology and geology to make a meaningful contribution (that does not make him feel

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/13 Frederik Ramm : > On 08/13/12 11:14, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> >> landuse=grass is not the same as landcover=grass, in fact, "grass" >> isn't a landuse at all. If you tag landuse=grass you actually loose >> the ability to tag a real landuse. > > > I think the opposite is true. If peop

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/3 Johan Jönsson : > There are of course several ways to construct hierarchy, > Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) uses one such > approach and when they come sufficently deep they switch to a more complicated > system with tailored classifiers and attributes to go

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/13/12 11:14, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: landuse=grass is not the same as landcover=grass, in fact, "grass" isn't a landuse at all. If you tag landuse=grass you actually loose the ability to tag a real landuse. I think the opposite is true. If people know what the landuse is then the

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/7/31 Pieren : > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Johan Jönsson wrote: >> There are several ways to tag landcover with existing tags but if we where to >> define a new tag for grass along the lines of >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover > > Why ? We have 1.066.000