On 16 November 2010 10:03, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/11/16 John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>: >> I've already been tagging beaches and other areas as surface=sand, how >> does using landcover make this any better? > > > I agree that in this case it is the same. For trees it is different. > surface=tree doesn't make any sense. Should we put some landcover > values in surface and some in landcover?
Yet another case of people treating keywords as english and trying to apply english grammar to them, if things keep going in this direction there will be another highway=footway V highway=path issue come up very quickly. At the very least surface=* makes a lot more sense than landuse=grass etc... > We could reserve surface to roads, squares and paths. Surface=* started out applying to roads and people wanted to tag bunkers at golf courses so surface=* was expanded, and now people want to make a similar tag duplicate the same intent and this seems to me will cause more problems than it will solve. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
