----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Edgars II" <nerou...@gmail.com>
To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <tagging@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 9:38 PM
Subject: [Tagging] trees and waterways
I'm wondering what the difference is between the recent discussions
about trees and waterways. Here's the way things look to me:
*The wiki says something should be tagged a certain way: ("lone or
significant tree" for natural=tree | "direction of the way should be
downstream" for waterway=river, stream, and maybe other values)
*People don't always see the definition on the wiki, and thus don't
tag according to it, instead: (using natural=tree for any tree | not
determining which way a waterway flows and drawing it in that
direction)
*Many features are now mapped differently from how the wiki says
Yet the result is different: with trees, consensus seems to be to
change the definition, while with waterways, we seem to be avoiding
the problem.
I think the difference can be summed up as:
With the tagging of trees the definition in the wiki was unclear; "lone or
significant" can mean different things to different people.
With the tagging of waterways the comment that "the way should be drawn in
the direction of the water flow" is quite clear, specific, and not really
open to any misinterpretation.
David
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