On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:32:01AM -0800, Karl Newman wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:30:07PM +1300, Robin Paulson wrote: > > > i think landuse = row_of_trees or whatever was suggested, is a hideous > > > abuse of the landuse tag. landuse isn't there as a dumping ground for > > > things that taggers can't be bothered to categorise properly > > > > I agree. > > > > > there is a tag proposal called natural=life, which may be the way to > > > go with this, but it's not finalised yet > > > > Since trees lining a way/street are such a common occurence, why > > not have a simple additional tag to the main road. > > > > lined_by_trees=yes/no/left/right > > > > Or do you really want to propose to add three seperate ways for > > something like this > > http://www.cubra.nl/bomen/boomvandeweek/elsendorptammekastanje/oprijlaan.jpg > Really, it's just a divider. Does it matter that there's trees on it? If it > were made of concrete, it would just be ignored (except inasmuch as it > causes the street(s) to be divided into parallel ways). I doubt anybody > would propose that we create a separate way for it. Or is someone planning > to make a super-nifty 3D map view with trees along the road? (That would be > cool...)
Read the thread again. Yes people are proposing to tag that line of tree as a seperate way with landuse=row_of_trees. And yes I agree with you that is ridiculous. Hence the rethorical nature of my question. cu bart _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
