2009/10/15 Ben Laenen <benlae...@gmail.com>: > 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.
> 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?". +1, I agree. Inside a landuse=residential we could than map the different surfaces. I'd suggest to use the key surface for the ground-cover, or is there a problem with it? > But it's not the easiest option of course and has practical problems: > * so what will we do with the current tags? they will obviously remain where and what they are. Don't see a problem here. > * and how could renderers still be able to make sense of all of it to render > something nice? they will have to decide, what to render, as they are already doing. They could also decide according to zoom-level, which would be the right decision (and detail) to show. > * it probably needs professional input to get a good list of all different > kinds of ground cover or some time to let it develop. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
