[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] wrote: >Sent: 11 April 2009 7:00 AM >To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) >Cc: 'OSM Talk' >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] xybot > >On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:24:51PM +0100, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) >wrote: >> >> That would be tagging for the renderer, which is not the OSM way. The OSM >> way is to tag what the object logically is as you see it. >> > >Based on common understanding of the meaning of the tags. > >> >Its a matter of common understanding - landuse=forrest and natural=wood >> >are in use and have been defined >> >> Hold on there. Defined? defined by whom. If you mean its in map features >> then that's cool because I put them there :-D >> On the other hand Map Features isn't a rule book or a prescribed >standard. >> Its guidance on how you might like to tag. landuse=wood is perfectly >correct >> in English. It means it's a piece of land been used for managed woodland >to >> my mind. That's not the same as forest. It might not translate the same >for >> you but that's cool. I wouldn't be asking you to accept the tag is >correct >> in your eyes, but I am asking you to respect it could be in mine. > >It might be that for you landuse=wood is managed woodland. The >wiki says the opposit and thats what people use to understand >the tags. And i am not talking about any translation in the wiki, >i am talking about the english version and what it says in the >description of key and value usage. > >landuse=forest > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse > > "For areas of land used by people. For natural areas, see >Key:natural." > > [...] > landuse forest Managed forest or woodland plantation >(Other languages). See also natural=wood. > [...] > >natural=wood > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:natural > > "This key is used to describe natural features, mostly in > terms of habitats and geological features. For man-made > and -managed features, see Key:landuse" > > [..] > natural wood Natural woodland (trees). See also >landuse=forest. > > >> >And in the above case there are a bunch of people who disagree with >> >using landuse=wood. And it doesnt even fit the keys definition by >> >which landuse means PEOPLEs use - Wood is not peoples use by definition >> >of the value. So landuse cant be used with wood as from whats in the >> >key and value description in the wiki. >> >> Well, we can agree to disagree on that point. > >You not only disagree with me but with the wiki and probably with >loads of mappers who tried to tag according to the description >of the tags in the wiki.
Well, the wiki changes with time. Look back through the history of the page and you will find it has changed over the last 3 years. The wiki is only guidance, not a set of rules/standards. I appreciate 100% that mappers will use what it says there today and that's cool, I have no problem with that. What I disagree with is that any alternative view is wrong. It's not wrong its just different. Cheers Andy > >Flo >-- >Florian Lohoff [email protected] +49-171-2280134 > Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little > security shall soon have neither - Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
