On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:01 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Why keep pushing this instead of just using surface=* which is widely > used and accepted already?
IMHO there are some subtle differences between these concepts: surface=rock landuse=rock natural=rock The first to me suggests that the ground beneath some other feature, like a path or a park, is rock. surface=* is almost always a supporting tag, rather than a tag by itself. The second is a bit odd, but would imply an area that is not used for anything because it's rocky - perhaps some kind of barren wasteland. The third describes a geological feature that is useful as a landmark. There are trees over there, there are rocks over here. I suspect these kinds of subtle distinctions are beyond our chaotic and unmanaged tagging scheme though. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
