If there is in fact a tailings pond there (and not something else mis-tagged as one), there is a tag man_made=tailings_pond specifically for that which was the subject of a 2021 proposal.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtailings_pond https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Tailings_pond On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 12:37 PM Dave Swarthout <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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