> On 03/08/2012 12:36, Martin Vonwald wrote: > But on the other hand those "subkeys" are harder for mappers. That's > why we will not see landcover=vegetation + vegetation=trees and > similar constructs. Such hierarchical tags have the disadvantage that > mappers often have to use more than one tag. Even for such common > objects like forests. And mappers will simply not accept that > > I agree on trying to have a limited set of values for landcover ( a complete set) but on the same time try to avoid subkeys for the obvious differences. I think that replacing a value of vegetation with three values trees/shrubs/herbaceous would still make the numbers of values a reasonable amount.
Colin Smale <colin.smale@...> writes: > Grass is an example of a herbaceous plant, and we tag from generic > towards specific, so it should really be landcover=herbaceous and > herbaceous=grass. I would advise against using "herbs" in this context. > Although it may be technically not incorrect amongst biologists, in > common English usage it refers to plants used for flavourings etc. like > Thyme, Rosemary, and Oregano. Joe Mapper is never going to forget that, > although Jean-Luc Cartographe might be excused for confusing grass and > herbs (herbe is French for grass, as well as the culinary plants) > > Colin > Thanks for the insights on the word herb. Then it is a contest between the formal but long value: "herbaceous" and the shorter value: "grass" It is the same thing they are supposed to map, it is just a question on the name of the value. It is the third value in the series trees/shrubs/?? I am looking for. (I understand that Imagic in his previous post thought it to be a hierarchy, this shows a weakness in the proposed values, would the value grass be understood as fields of plants, even if there are more of something else than just grass.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous_plant http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krautige_Pflanze _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
