Am Di., 26. Nov. 2019 um 09:30 Uhr schrieb Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com >:
> Graeme, please mark the page as proposal. > > I am not at all happy with "berm". It is unfortunately a term used for a > number of different things all related to earthworks. > What is missing in OSM are clean-cut mapping possibilities for (slopped) > earth walls and for (one-sided) slopes. > Berm is neither of the two. In addition the main and original meaning of > berm is a step in the slope of an earth wall. See the first diagram in the > German > Wikipedia page for Berme. <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berme> > This photo > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levee_of_the_River_Po.jpg> shows > one of the objects that I would like to map properly: A river levee with > two berms. > I agree the term seems to be mainly describing a horizontal, linear narrow area within an embankment (German usage of the term "Berme", which originates from French). This is also what I found in the oxford online dictionaries, and what wikipedia en has as first meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berm Generally, proposals should be set up in the proposal namespace. Cheers Martin
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