Re: "if a reservoir was fenced off, I would tag the fenced area as landuse=reservoir but only the actual water surface as water."
There is also a more specific tag for this: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=landuse&value=reservoir_watershed#overview - though most uses were added by an import in 2011 - landuse=reservoir_watershed: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Alanduse%3Dreservoir_watershed -- Joseph Eisenberg On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 10:56 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > On 13. Dec 2020, at 18:49, Tomas Straupis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Introducing duplicate and unused schema (especially as the only > option) is not a good IT decision, basic analysis should have shown > that. But in case of id it was technology leading functionality and > thus leading users when in IT it must be the other way round - > usage/requirements must lead technical decisions. That is IT BASICS. > Lack of such understanding is the reason why I claim iD developers > lacked basic IT knowledge > > > > it is indeed well documented that there was a period in iD development > where the developers occasionally (initially without actively > communicating it and later openly and deliberately) dismissed the existing > tagging wiki docs and mailing list and tag stats, but I think it should be > mentioned that it was the former developer. Brian, maybe this was before > you started to follow the lists. You can browse through older closed iD > tickets to see some discussion, there’s also a wiki page about the topic: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID/Controversial_Decisions > > regarding water=reservoir or landuse=reservoir, there might be some subtle > differences. water=reservoir is for surface water areas. if a reservoir was > fenced off, I would tag the fenced area as landuse=reservoir but only the > actual water surface as water. > > Cheers Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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