On 13 November 2010 21:40, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > How is landcover orthogonal to landuse / natural?
Landcover should absolutely be orthogonal to landuse. Landcover is what is on a given spot (grass, trees, pavement, carpark, building, water, etc) while landuse if what the area is used for (Park, school, residential etc). Both can easily cover the same area - in fact most areas could have both a landuse and landcover tag. The fact that many "landcover" tags are currently in landuse= just makes it harder for people to understand the difference, it doesn't make them landuse tags. Many natural= tags are also landcover tags. > BTW: There is *no* benefit of a new landcover tag compared to existing tags. The benefit would be reducing the confusion and making it easier to explain. Personally, I'm not sure that the benefit is worth the pain of changing, but there *is* a benefit. Stephen _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
