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

2012-08-15 Thread Guillaume Allegre
Le mar. 14 aout 2012 à 20:18 +, Johan Jönsson a ecrit : > If we replace "herbaceous" with "grass" you don´t have to know much about > biology. > FAO's idea is also to avoid biological and geological terms. > > The FAO-system relies on that a couple of different data is added, all of > them

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

2012-08-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/15 Guillaume Allegre : > Could you please give a link to the FAO schema you are > referring to? http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y7220e/y7220e00.htm#Contents basically they use a 2 phase classification system, where the first phase is very simple and leads to 8 generic types of landcover. Th

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

2012-08-15 Thread David ``Smith''
I thought we used natural=* for this kind of thing. For the different broad classes of vegetation discussed so far in this thread, there's natural=grass/scrub/wood. Of course there's natural=water. Other landcover types are uncommon in central Ohio so I'm not familiar with their tagging, but I t

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

2012-08-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/15 David ``Smith'' : > I thought we used natural=* for this kind of thing. "natural" is not defined in a clear way IMHO, it is a mixture of different kind of features, but most of them could be called "geographical features" and if this was expressed clearly it would introduce some logics

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 35, Issue 32

2012-08-15 Thread St Niklaas
Hi,I followed the discussion about tagging a railway track or more. From a geografersvieuw its simple, the closer youll go the more youll see. The program hides all the extra info fi a 16 lanes highway or several railtracks aside. At first I want to see a track or road. After closing in Im inte

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

2012-08-15 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2012/8/15 David ``Smith'' : > > I thought we used natural=* for this kind of thing. > > > "natural" is not defined in a clear way IMHO, it is a mixture of > different kind of features, but most of them could be called > "geographical features" an

Re: [Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 35, Issue 32

2012-08-15 Thread Johan Jönsson
St Niklaas writes: > > IMHO is a grass covered area, temporarily, scrubbs and trees are covering it without care in an short period of time, whos tagging it again ? Why not nature as tag in nature reserve area 's. Just to avoid the immage Ive seen, with a large forest area and a view trees be

[Tagging] Why is this user editing in this manner?

2012-08-15 Thread Dave F.
Hi http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12742505 I created a multi-polygon (1754193) with an outer, & a couple of inners to represent a riverbank with an island (there are other members, but not relevant to this enquiry). To the West of this is a closed way to represent the continua

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

2012-08-15 Thread Stephen Hope
On 15 August 2012 21:15, David ``Smith'' wrote: > So why is a new tag or hierarchy needed? Are we just trying to standardize > or formalize a presently-haphazard array of tags or values? > The problem at the moment is that we have two types of tags (landcover and landuse) scattered throughout a

Re: [Tagging] Why is this user editing in this manner?

2012-08-15 Thread Jais Pedersen
The easiest way to find out is to ask him ;) Looking at his other recent edits, it looks like he is systematically going through and fixing the issues in OSM Inspectors Multipolygon view: http://goo.gl/aWpXQ - It still shows the error as i write this, but the view might have been updated with his