2010/11/14 Craig Wallace <craig...@fastmail.fm>: >> BTW: There was exactly *no* good example, which real world problem could >> be solved with landcover that can't be done with: surface, natural >> and/or landuse. > > I think it would help with the mess of natural=wood vs landuse=forest. > eg if I see an area of trees, I don't know whether or not it is "natural" or > "managed". Best to just have a tag that says this land is covered with > trees. Then you can add extra tags for how managed it is (if you know that), > plus tag what type of trees it is, and what it is used for etc. > > So I think a tag of something like landcover=trees would be very useful.
I'm actually already doing this: landcover=tree. There is already 2545 entities of them in the db. You could still use a different surface there by the way, so it is not superfluous. Also landcover=scree, grass, ice, sand are good values IMHO. Probably we should simply start using them. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
