Regarding "The Bot". An excellent tool to to correct spelling errors (brigde to bridge), but it must stay clear of tagging blunders. A Bot can have no idea whether Landuse=Wood should be Landuse=Forest or Natural=Wood, and therefore should stay clear, but could add something like a note so local users can check. I think very few of the "mapping pairs" should be changed using a bot. "The Bot " changes Natural=Meadow to Landuse=Meadow. User:Class Augenr has added Landuse=Meadow to Map Features with the justification it is used by Mapnik. We dont tag for the renderer, and therefore a Bot definitely should not edit for a renderer.
Regarding Landuse & Natural. It's clear people are confused. I find the whole concept of Landuse=* confusing, because all land has a use. Many area tags could come under Landuse. Why do we have Landuse=Recreation_Ground, and Leisure=Nature_Reserve? A recreation ground is an area set aside for public leisure, many Nature Reserves ban people from entering and are a Landuse Designation. Regarding Wood & Forest. I've more interest in mapping natural habitat than any street. A lot of my time is spent working in Woodland and I find it very frustrating to see Woodland separated with two tags which give poor consideration to meaning or use. Its clear in the UK these two "unique" definitions for Woodland are being ignored, which is significant when we have a "soft" convention that we should try to use British English when defining tags. I've tried to track back and find how these two unique and confusing definitions for Woodland came about, and it seems to lead to the talk-de list (I cant be sure though). Its something I'd like to try and sort out in the summer with a new Woodland=* tag, but its looks like I'll ironically be too busy working in "Woodland". In the meantime it appears I can simply edit the wiki definitions for Wood and Forest..... Jason user:Jamicu
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
