On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems to me that landuse is a mess. There are the obvious values > like residential, commercial, and industrial, but beyond those are a > lot of minor values that could be grouped much better into a few > values. For example: > landuse=agricultural would include values like farm and vineyard
That makes sense. > landuse=institutional would include values like military and cemetery, This one isn't so good. "Landuse=military" is perfectly valid, as military land is really different from other land in lots of respects, like the absolute prohibition on anyone entering it. I don't know how a renderer should handle "landuse=institutional" by itself, but I do know how it should handle landuse=military. > landuse=transport would include values like railway and garages, as > well as other transport like highway junctions Meh. Whenever you propose merging two tags into one, with distinguishing subtags, you have to ask "how would I feel about these two tags being rendered the same way, by a renderer that didn't support those subtags?" Highway junctions and railway garages? Not so good. > landuse=leisure would include leisure and tourism as well as some amenities Perhaps, would want to see detail. > > Then there are values like grass and reservoir that are not quite > landuse. In particular, reservoir, unlike other landuse tags, only > applies to the area that's normally flooded, rather than the land > immediately adjacent that is also owned by the water control authority > (containing berms and such). This would be like tagging only houses as > landuse=residential and leaving the yards and driveways untagged. Yeah. It would be better to have something like landuse=water_management for the fenced-off area, if any. > > I've written up a possible classification here: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:NE2/landuse > Ideally this could also serve as a framework to eliminate many amenity > values (institution=post_office, leisure=stripclub). Amenity is Is this an important goal? Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
