W dniu 27.10.2017 o 08:36, Warin pisze:
The landuse key is clearly to tag the use of the land by humans.
It's also to indicate use of the water, hence it's not 100% clear and I
understand why some people don't like it.
The natural key is unclear - it seams to be for both things made by
nature and things made by man! To me this confused all and the key
should be discouraged.
It should be replaced by the keys landcover and landform, these have
no implication of human or nature but simply describe the type of
feature.
Let's look at natural=tree - it doesn't matter if the tree was seeded by
man or by natural means, the tree is natural object, which was not
created by man (even GMO is about _modyfying_, not creating). There can
be however man_made=tree - we have a popular artwork in Warsaw, which is
a palm made of plastic (tagging has changed, but it's a nice example):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greetings_from_Jerusalem_Avenues
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1795659661
Landcover is neutral (what one can see on the surface). I like it
because it's closest to the "ground truth", and is very useful when we
don't know more details. However we could promote "surface" tag as a
primary and it would also make sense for me (currently it's defined as
additional tag: "used to provide additional information about the
physical surface of roads/footpaths and some other features").
I have no idea what "landform" can be, so I don't have an opinion on that.
However "natural" key for trees (
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=trees maybe?) sounds
perfectly valid for me.
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