Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread johnw
There's an interesting question. It is a "salt evaporation pond" , and it is a really old practice of making salt. the colorful south bay of san francisco is thanks to salt farming. But is refining a mineral really farming? Refining is usually considered industrial - but it was practiced with

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 25/lug/2014 um 18:48 schrieb John Packer : > > I don't know how common this practice is, but sometimes I see things like > landuse=commercial and landuse=residential applied to a relatively large area. yes, the size and generalization level vary a lot, but the tendency is to get them mo

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 26/lug/2014 um 03:09 schrieb John Willis : > > does give the greatest benefit - because paired with a civic= sub tag, it can > help define a myriad of governmentish buildings and services that are beyond > the scope of city halls and community centers. agree that in this field (governme

Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 26/lug/2014 um 10:17 schrieb johnw : > > But now most of the large ones to map are all part of industrial salt > refineries. yes, very large typically indicates industrial (also for "normal" farming you could then find industrial characteristics). In other areas of the world there ar

Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 26/lug/2014 um 06:24 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny : > > Why farmland? For me it seems clearly industrial process, certainly unrelated > to growing plants. It is not like salt ponds are plughed. they are harvested though, also olive groves ,for example, aren't ploughed. In case of small ma

Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
> they are harvested though, also olive groves ,for example, aren't > ploughed. In case of small manual production, how would that qualify for > industrial? > > Use your search engine and look for images about salt farming and you'll > find lot of small scale instances as well > I always associate

Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 26/lug/2014 um 14:04 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny : > > Scale is not relevant here, almost all industrial and farming activities are > performed on large and small scale. maybe there is a language problem, to me industrial implies division of labor, mechanization/automatisation and also a

Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread Tod Fitch
On Jul 26, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > >> Am 26/lug/2014 um 14:04 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny : >> >> Scale is not relevant here, almost all industrial and farming activities are >> performed on large and small scale. > > > > maybe there is a language problem, to me indu

Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 26/lug/2014 um 18:12 schrieb Tod Fitch : > > it might be between "craft" and "industrial". I can see this could be used > for other areas too like pottery, printing, etc. yes, that was what I wanted to say. Craft is not industrial by German definition cheers, Martin ___

Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread Simon Wüllhorst
I propose to reduce inventing new landuses and start making subcategories whenewer possible. Recently I encountered landuse=plant_nursery, landuse=salt_pond, landuse=greenhouse_horticulture and landuse=mine. I think that all of them are overly specific and should be tagged as subcategories of mo

Re: [Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

2014-07-26 Thread johnw
@ martin - In Japan, the "neighborhood" industrial shops are really common, especially here in car parts land Gunma (Home of Subaru, Mitsuba and Ogura). We're talking two guys in a garage running (truly) industrial metal stamping machines to make simple brackets or whatnot for cars. Tokyo's re

Re: [Tagging] Religious landuse?

2014-07-26 Thread johnw
On Jul 26, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > in this field (government agencies/institutions/services) we are lacking > almost all tags, but I would prefer to use something different than landuse > (or subtag for landuse) We're talking about a very simple landuse=civic (which