On github, Christoph mentioned that some of these features tagged barrier=embankment may be types of earthen fortifications, as found in Europe, eg earthen ramparts, earthworks or earth banks.
> "Double/symmetric embankment not connected to some other primary feature like > a road... something we in German call a 'Wall' " It could be translated "rampart" - "a large wall built round a town, castle, etc. to protect it"? Or "earthwork": "a raised area of earth made, especially in the past, for defence against enemy attack" This is in use 200 times as barrier=earthworks (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/barrier=earthworks) or historic=earthworks - 196 times (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/historic=earthworks) or perhaps barrier=earth_bank - 184 times (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/barrier=earth_bank) There are a few uses of barrier=rampart and military=rampart. Perhaps someone could check on the German language mailing list or forum? On 5/28/19, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mateusz Konieczny has marked barrier=embankment as deprecated, and I'm > adding the "deprecated features" template to the wiki page (which I > just made last month, for documentation). Most features were imported > before 2011. > > In contrast, man_made=embankment is well-documented and established, > with increasing usage: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Embankment-man_made-vs-barrier.png > (Graph from http://taghistory.raifer.tech) > > Please comment if you disagree with deprecating barrier=embankment or > have any concerns > > On 4/12/19, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The tag barrier=embankment was not part of the original barriers >> proposal and does not have a wiki page, but it is used 4750 times: >> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/barrier=embankment >> >> However, man_made=embankment is well-documented and used over 80,000 >> times: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made=embankment >> >> There is also a tag "embankment=yes" that can be applied to linear >> features like roads, similar to "cutting=yes". >> >> And there is barrier=retaining_wall which is documented: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier=retaining_wall >> >> How is this tag being used? Are there any situations where >> barrier=embankment is better or at least clearly different than >> man_made=embankment? >> >> (Note that this tag is currently rendered by the Openstreetmap-Carto >> style like a retaining wall or fence, while man_made=embankment has a >> specific rendering, but this could change) >> > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
