@Brian - Thanks for pointing that out. I haven't visited any of these places in person nor am I likely to but that tagging seems to be particularly useful in this situation. Furthermore, the Proposal discusses the reservoir tag coupled with either tailing or tailing_pond and recommends not using it because typical reservoirs are associated with water.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 8:46 AM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonew...@gmail.com> wrote: > If there is in fact a tailings pond there (and not something else > mis-tagged as one), there is a tag man_made=tailings_pond specifically for > that which was the subject of a 2021 proposal. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtailings_pond > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Tailings_pond > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 12:37 PM Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm reading a book about the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada and when I took >> a look at the tags of several areas near Fort McMurray where the tar sand >> (bitumin) is being mined, the tagging is very unusual: >> >> industrial=oil_sands (Taginfo 30) >> landuse=reservoir >> reservoir_type=tailings (Taginfo 2305) >> >> Except for the landuse=reservoir tag, which has long been deprecated, >> there is nothing in the Wiki about the other two tags. I think the tagging >> could be improved and made more meaningful by changing the >> landuse=reservoir tag to landuse=industrial. This would be more accurate, >> fix the deprecated tag issue, make it work better with the >> industrial=oil_sands tag, and prevent renderers from displaying those areas >> as if they were water, which they are not. Tar sands are as different from >> natural water as it is possible to be. >> >> The industrial=oil_sands tag seems fine as does the >> reservoir_type=tailings tag. >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Swarthout >> Homer, Alaska >> Chiang Mai, Thailand >> Travel Blog: http://dswarthout.blogspot.com >> Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/184600884@N06 >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog: http://dswarthout.blogspot.com Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/184600884@N06
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