Anthony wrote: > The problem with the landuse tag is it's being used for multiple > things. On one hand, it's being used to describe what the land is > being used for - if people are using the land as their residence, the > land is tagged landuse=residential. On the other hand, it's being > used to describe what sorts of things are present on the land - if > there are lots of trees, it's being tagged landuse=forest.
+1 as I've said this myself on the orchard proposal talk page. There it was a discussion about whether a orchard isn't actually a farm as well. The only way I see we can solve all this is to get a new tag which is exclusively used for ground cover. Such a tag would then stop having all ambiguity, and stop all discussions like "is a lake in a wood part of the wood or not?". But it's not the easiest option of course and has practical problems: * so what will we do with the current tags? * and how could renderers still be able to make sense of all of it to render something nice? * it probably needs professional input to get a good list of all different kinds of ground cover * it's moving into the realm of micromapping: you may need good quality aerial imagery, and probably a good knowledge of all ground covers as well * so not exactly as easy for a mapper as just putting "landuse=farm" on a big polygon Greetings Ben _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
