2012/7/31 LM_1 <[email protected]>: > When you search wiki for grass, you get landuse=grass. When you type > grass in JOSM's preset search box, you get landuse=grass. Potlatch > does not offer any direct way to tag grass. landuse=grass was probably > used before anyone thought about the difference between landuse and > landcover (in osm tagging). > Today's renderers support landuse=gras and do not support landcover=anything. > That being the reasons for landuse=* domination it is hardly enough to > proclaim it the better way.
+1 It hardly is the better way. The key landuse is contaminated with a lot of values that simple don't fit or are used in an inconsistent way. Most prominent example for sure is landuse=forest, which currently is used in case the land is covered with trees. But this is not a landUSE. If the land is used for growing trees than landuse=forest is correct, but there may not be any trees at all at the current time because they are just being planted (landuse=forest + landcover=grass). On the other hand there could be a lot of trees but completely unmanaged (landcover=trees + no landuse). That's the main reason why landuse (and also natural) needs some heavy cleanup which of course would deprecate some tags and for sure take some time. But I don't see any other way. I started an overview on my user page of the current usage of landuse/natural and how it might look if we use landcover. If someone is interested take a look. Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
