2009/9/21 Shaun McDonald <[email protected]>: >> (see landuse=forest, natural=forest, landuse=wood, natural=wood). > > Speak to someone from the forestry commision or similar and they'll tell you > difference between all of the above.
yes, but unfortunately not all mappers are forresters. >> Actually it is not a must to document, but I wouldn't discourage >> people who want to do it: it helps not creating ambiguities which are >> hard to get rid off, as the OSM-history has proven. > > I'm not saying it shouldn't be documented. What I don't like seeing is > people proposing lots of things that no one has started to tag. It's better > to have a few ways to tag something and then decide which is the best method > after you have tried a few. I agree for tagging-schemes and wider approaches, but when it comes to single words those situations are never decided in OSM: usually just both "solutions" are kept - and yes, I admit, even more when there are wiki-definitions for both of them ;-) cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
