Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/7/31 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Johan Jönsson joha...@goteborg.cc wrote: There are several ways to tag landcover with existing tags but if we where to define a new tag for grass along the lines of

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/13/12 11:14, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: landuse=grass is not the same as landcover=grass, in fact, grass isn't a landuse at all. If you tag landuse=grass you actually loose the ability to tag a real landuse. I think the opposite is true. If people know what the landuse is then they

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/3 Johan Jönsson joha...@goteborg.cc: There are of course several ways to construct hierarchy, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) uses one such approach and when they come sufficently deep they switch to a more complicated system with tailored classifiers and

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/13 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: On 08/13/12 11:14, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: landuse=grass is not the same as landcover=grass, in fact, grass isn't a landuse at all. If you tag landuse=grass you actually loose the ability to tag a real landuse. I think the opposite is true.

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
On 08/13/12 11:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, the FAO system seems quite elaborated (might be too detailed/complicated/long for OSM, not sure, Anything used for OSM must enable someone who knows shit about biology and geology to make a meaningful contribution (that does not make him feel

Re: [Tagging] Advice clarification of the railway tracks=* tag required.

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/11 Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com: I've added track_detail=yes in places where there are tracks1 tags but the lines are separately drawn. I've included some that have been there for a while. I've contacted the only people who I'm aware that use the tracks data

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Kytömaa Lauri
according to the wiki, for smaller areas of mown and managed grass for example in the middle of a roundabout, verges beside a road or in So this isn't actually a tag for every spot where you can find grass, but it is a tag for auxiliary areas dedicated to traffic. It reads for example above. My

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/13 Kytömaa Lauri lauri.kyto...@aalto.fi: according to the wiki, for smaller areas of mown and managed grass for example in the middle of a roundabout, verges beside a road or in So this isn't actually a tag for every spot where you can find grass, but it is a tag for auxiliary areas

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread John F. Eldredge
Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/8/13 Kytömaa Lauri lauri.kyto...@aalto.fi: according to the wiki, for smaller areas of mown and managed grass for example in the middle of a roundabout, verges beside a road or in So this isn't actually a tag for every spot where you

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Volker Schmidt
Still grass doesn't become a landuse. I woul dnot agree with this statement. In many areas of the world, grass is grown and harvested as (winter) fodder for animals. According to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse this is tagged as landuse=grass If the grass is used for grazing, the

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/13 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com: I woul dnot agree with this statement. In many areas of the world, grass is grown and harvested as (winter) fodder for animals. According to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse this is tagged as landuse=grass IMHO the general

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread John F. Eldredge
Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com wrote: Still grass doesn't become a landuse. I woul dnot agree with this statement. In many areas of the world, grass is grown and harvested as (winter) fodder for animals. According to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse this is tagged as

Re: [Tagging] on the name of a tag for landcover

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/8/13 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com: Yes, if animals are intended to graze on the grass, if the grass will be harvested for use as fodder (what my earlier message termed a hay field), or if sod will subsequently be transplanted elsewhere (a sod farm), then the grass is being

Re: [Tagging] Advice clarification of the railway tracks=* tag required.

2012-08-13 Thread Dave F.
On 10/08/2012 23:30, Richard Mann wrote: I've added track_detail=yes in places where there are tracks1 tags but the lines are separately drawn. I've included some that have been there for a while. I've contacted the only people who I'm aware that use the tracks data (itoworld) to see if