Zeke Farwell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm newly subscribed to the tagging list so I apologize if this has > been discussed before. Didn't find it in the archives though. I'm > working on an area of coastline made up of cliffs and beaches > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.94817&lon=-122.065787&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF>. > > There are many sections where the cliffs drop directly into the > ocean and it seems logical to me that the coastline and the cliff > should be represented as one single way where this is the case. Coastlines are at the mean high-water mark. This could be at a variety of types of surface: cliffs, beach, shingle, sea wall, mud and so on. The way tagging seem to be heading is to add extra modifying tags. So the natural=coastline could have an extra coastline=* tag. This could be something like
coastline=cliff coastline=beach coastline=shingle coastline=sea_wall coastline=mud coastline=mangrove This process allows renderers and other processors to continue using the natural=coastline tag as now, but later they may add rendering or processing for the extra coastline types. There may also be cliffs or sea walls inland of the mean high-water mark, but these are already catered for. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging