On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 14:04:36 +0100 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/2/5 Elizabeth Dodd <ed...@billiau.net>: > > I'm tracing a big open cast mine which has > > > > pit; tailings dump; ore dump; processing plant to concentrate > > ore; water supply; container loading facility for concentrate (goes > > in smallish containers by road to a rail siding) > > > > I've got a major shortage of tags and don't have anyone nearby to > > ask about suitable tags > > > > Then there is a small residential area and an airstrip > > > > Would people make this lot into a site_relation? > > > not sure about the relation (multipolygon could maybe do as well). I > guess there is no tags for the single parts yet (ore dump, ...), so a > proposal would be nice to have more detailed minery-mapping. Maybe you > could make a big polygon (or multipolygon) around everything, giving > that the name of the site and some tags to mark it (like > landuse=open_cast_mining / or maybe quarry), and then tag the > individual parts with their actual details. Would you consider the > residential area and the airstrip part of the mining site? > > cheers, > Martin > the residential village and the airstrip are part of the mining site from the social and economic points of view - single owner, single purpose the 132km of haul road also belongs in the economic view of the mining site, but would not be appropriate in a polygon, but could be added to a relation, which was why I was suggesting relation _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
