I'm reading a book about the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada and when I took a look at the tags of several areas near Fort McMurray where the tar sand (bitumin) is being mined, the tagging is very unusual:
industrial=oil_sands (Taginfo 30) landuse=reservoir reservoir_type=tailings (Taginfo 2305) Except for the landuse=reservoir tag, which has long been deprecated, there is nothing in the Wiki about the other two tags. I think the tagging could be improved and made more meaningful by changing the landuse=reservoir tag to landuse=industrial. This would be more accurate, fix the deprecated tag issue, make it work better with the industrial=oil_sands tag, and prevent renderers from displaying those areas as if they were water, which they are not. Tar sands are as different from natural water as it is possible to be. The industrial=oil_sands tag seems fine as does the reservoir_type=tailings tag. What do you think? -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog: http://dswarthout.blogspot.com Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/184600884@N06
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