Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-18 Thread john
andcover tag). ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover >From :mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com Date :Thu Nov 18 16:00:04 America/Chicago 2010 2010/11/18 Ralf Kleineisel : > Did I say anything about single grass blades? On a beach you can have > square ki

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-18 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/18 Ralf Kleineisel : > Did I say anything about single grass blades? On a beach you can have > square kilometers of different surfaces, sand, pebbles, grass which are > well big enough to tag. I thought about something like this when you wrote about grass in the sand: http://s3.images.co

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-18 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
On 11/18/2010 09:01 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/11/18 Ralf Kleineisel : >> On 11/18/2010 04:32 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: >> >>> So, you would be using multiple surface tags on the same area? >> >> No, I'd tag the whole beach as landuse=beach, the sandy areas as >> surface=sand and th

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-18 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/18 Ralf Kleineisel : > On 11/18/2010 04:32 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: > >> So, you would be using multiple surface tags on the same area? > > No, I'd tag the whole beach as landuse=beach, the sandy areas as > surface=sand and the grass parts as surface=grass. really? You are tagging s

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-18 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
On 11/18/2010 04:32 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: > So, you would be using multiple surface tags on the same area? No, I'd tag the whole beach as landuse=beach, the sandy areas as surface=sand and the grass parts as surface=grass. ___ Tagging mailing

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-17 Thread john
So, you would be using multiple surface tags on the same area? I thought that the usual practice was to have only one surface=whatever tag on a given area. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover >From :mailto:r...@kleineisel.de Date :Wed Nov 17

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-17 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
On 11/16/2010 06:59 PM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: > If you wanted to describe both the soil and what is growing on the > soil, would you use both a surface tag and also a landcover tag? For > example, if you had a sand dune stabilized by beach grass, would you > use surface=sand and landcover=be

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 November 2010 04:51, Richard Welty wrote: > in general, surface is a poor match to the needs of geologists, > as there is rather a bit more to geology than just the surface. How will adding a secondary tag that duplicates surface=* fix this? ___

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/16/10 1:40 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/11/16: If you wanted to describe both the soil and what is growing on the soil, would you use both a surface tag and also a landcover tag? For example, if you had a sand dune stabilized by beach grass, would you use surface=sand and landco

Re: [Tagging] FW :Re: RFC: new key Landcover

2010-11-16 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/16 : > If you wanted to describe both the soil and what is growing on the soil, > would you use both a surface tag and also a landcover tag?  For example, if > you had a sand dune stabilized by beach grass, would you use surface=sand and > landcover=beach_grass? I think that this is a