On Friday 13 September 2013, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > If everyone locally calls it a desert... then what? Print out pages > from wikipedia and start arguing :-)?
This is exactly what i was talking about earlier: Just because there are areas which undisputedly qualify as deserts does not mean this is a useful tag for OSM. The key here is verifiability and natural=desert is a picure book case of a non-verifiable tag. Setting an arbitrary criterion for average annual precipitation would not really change that and would also not be a qualified criterion for what is usually seen as desert since aridity depends as much on evaporation as it does on precipitation. Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
