On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:00 PM, grin <[email protected]> wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/illegal
I see a few serious issues with this scheme: 1) "illegal" is not really a category of things. It's an attribute, and its meaning varies - here it seems to primarily convey a sense of "informal". For example, in most places, dumping rubbish *anywhere* is "illegal". An "illegal rubbish dump" is really just an informal rubbish dump - and it's as illegal as anywhere else. Similarly for cemetery - this really describes an "informal cemetery". The legality is not really of major interest to users of the map. They just want to distinguish between an official cemetery and something else. 2) landuse=illegal just seems broken. "This land is used for illegality"? 3) If your primary use case is environmental damage, it would better to focus around that. "hazard=domestic_waste" would be much more to the point, and could be used without having to find out whether the rubbish is actually "illegal" or not. If rubbish regularly accumulates on the side of a river, it's probably not "illegal" as such, but is the same kind of environmental problem. So, for the tags you suggest, I propose alternatives: illegal=waste_disposal -> landuse=refuse (or whatever it is), informal=yes illegal=squatted_property -> landuse=residential, owner=squatters illegal=graveyard -> landuse=graveyard, informal=yes illegal=barrier -> barrier=fence, informal=yes illegal=deforestation -> landuse=farmyard, informal=yes I think the tags you've proposed focus on one single attribute, and won't gel at all well with other tags and map elements. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
