On Tuesday 29 September 2015, joost schouppe wrote: > Because they tend to be dry most of the time, and plants tend to > dislike pure salt, they tend to look like a desert. > > How should one tag such a thing? I've seen three very different > ideas: > [...]
There is no established tagging for this, none of your suggestions seems particularly good: - natural=desert is wrong for the salt flat itself in any case. If it is a desert by whatever definition of desert it won't end at the edge of the salt flat usually. - natural=wetland means water saturated soil which is correct only for a very short time span between the water covered state and the dry state. - natural=water is questionable for areas that are never or only very sporadically covered by water. For areas with regular (i.e. seasonal) saltwater cover natural=water + intermittent=yes/seasonal=yes + salt=yes would be right, otherwise there is no well matching established tagging. You could of course think about tagging it geological=salt_pan but it might not be such a good idea to make the dominance of salt the defining criterion here - the more generic term would be 'dry lake'. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
