On 21/11/2020 15.07, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
My understanding about this is that there is a difference between British
English usage and American usage - especially in the western USA.
The English seem to have an idea that "rock" is for mostly solid,
immobile "bedrock", while a "stone" is a mob
My understanding about this is that there is a difference between British
English usage and American usage - especially in the western USA.
The English seem to have an idea that "rock" is for mostly solid, immobile
"bedrock", while a "stone" is a mobile, separate piece of mineral which you
might p
Nov 21, 2020, 17:43 by o...@westnordost.de:
>> rock „pieces“ would be tagged as „stone“ I guess?
>>
>
> Not so sure about that, then it would be surface=stones, (note the plural)
> wouldn't it?
>
I am completely fine with both versions.
I created today https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:s
> rock „pieces“ would be tagged as „stone“ I guess?
Not so sure about that, then it would be surface=stones, (note the
plural) wouldn't it?
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There is a huge discussion on the #tagging channel on OSM slack (85+
replies) where all those "rocky" surface are being discussed.
Here are some s
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> On 20. Nov 2020, at 23:22, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
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> Both for exposed natural rock and steps/footways made of rock pieces?
rock „pieces“ would be tagged as „stone“ I guess?
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 at 08:41, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn it seems that it is
> something more purposefully constructed than
> "pile of unwanted stones kept in one place"
>
Yes, that's what I thought
man_made=
We call them stone walls, but every so often a pedantist comes along and
reminds us that they're actually stone fences.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 5:56 PM Paul Allen wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 22:35, Graeme Fitzpatrick
> wrote:
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>> I was having similar thoughts just a couple of days ago, about
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 22:35, Graeme Fitzpatrick
wrote:
> I was having similar thoughts just a couple of days ago, about what to
> call a pile of rocks that a farmer has cleared from, then piled up in, a
> field?
>
In the part of the world I was raised, rocks cleared from fields were used
to bui
I was having similar thoughts just a couple of days ago, about what to call
a pile of rocks that a farmer has cleared from, then piled up in, a field?
natural=bare_rock says it's exposed bedrock
=scree has fallen from an adjacent rockface
=shingle is on a beach or river bed
=stone is for large bou
There is also an undocumented surface=stone, which I tend to thing is
identical to bare_rock. Though I could see "rock" meaning a rougher
surface than stone/bare_rock.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 5:22 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> Nov 20, 2020, 23:14 by diete
Nov 20, 2020, 23:14 by dieterdre...@gmail.com:
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>> On 20. Nov 2020, at 23:01, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
>> wrote:
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>> surface=rock
>> surface=bare_rock
>>
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>
> these seem both explicit and ok, although bare rock is a bit redundant
> and rock alone has 5 times
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> On 20. Nov 2020, at 23:01, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> wrote:
>
> surface=rock
> surface=bare_rock
these seem both explicit and ok, although bare rock is a bit redundant
and rock alone has 5 times the usage:
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=rock
I wo
It seems that we have no good value to mark surface of path of rocky paths.
surface=gravel fits for surface of small rocks (almost always man made, though
especially in mountains some may be of a natural origin)
surface=fine_gravel fits for small gravel
surface=unhewn_cobblestone =sett =paving_s
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