On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 8:28 AM SelfishSeahorse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Another idea i see is to extend the current tagging scheme with > landuse=basin (+ content=sewage) by creating new basin=* values > basin=clarifier and basin=digester. This would have the advantage that > no retagging is required and people that want to map the basins but > don't know their function can still map them. > It has the disadvantage that it doesn't make sense. At least not to me, as a native speaker of British English (which is the normal language for defining OSM tags) and as somebody who doesn't work in sanitation. Maybe a British sanitation engineer would use basin or a non-British speaker would use basin but I most definitely would not. Firstly, I don't think of a settling tank or clarifier as a basin. A porcelain object for washing hands in a bathroom is a basin and a geological depression in which water collects is a basin, and a man-made depression for holding water might be a basin but a clarifier isn't. I can see the commonalities in all of those but a clarifier just isn't a basin. Other than bathroom porcelain, a basin requires a depression in the ground. Secondly, if you're going to apply landuse to a man-mad object rather than to an area of ground that holds a collection of man-made objects then instead of building=house we should have landuse=house. We don't do things that way. -- Paul
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