The tag barrier=wall should only be used for barriers which are vertical walls on both sides.
When you have a wall with higher ground on one side, level with the top of the wall, that's a retaining wall: barrier=retaining_wall It looks like the original question is about man-made earth slopes, however, and these are usually tagged man_made=embankment, with the line at the top of the slope as previously mentioned. In another thread we have been discussing an additional tag that could be added for the area of the embankment, perhaps man_made=embankment_area or similar, but this would be in addition to mapping the top of the embankment as a line. (BTW, the whole area of Gualtieri Shooting Club should probably be leisure=sports_centre rather than leisure=pitch) Joseph eisenberg On 11/20/19, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering about barrier=wall, even though it's possibly not a > constructed wall as such? > > When I was just looking at barriers, I spotted > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:barrier#Bund_barriers_used_in_spate_irrigation, > used 22 times, but undocumented. > > While this, & wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunding mainly refer to > walls to retain water, they do also mention > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunding#Anti-noise_bunds > > Bunds are also commonly used around explosive or ammunition storage sites & > one definition is: " “bund” means an embankment of earth or a wall > constructed of brick, stone, concrete or other approved material to form > the perimeter or part of the perimeter of a compound;" > > That would probably work for you? > > & an interesting Pistol Club you've got there, sitting in the middle of > fields / farmland! > > Thanks > > Graeme > > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 07:11, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Shooting ranges often have earth walls to separate the individual >> shooting >> "booths". >> I see three alternative tagging approaches, but none is satisfactory >> 1) man_made=dyke (but the wiki says this is only for water) >> 2) trace the flat top of the earth mounds with a man_made=embankment >> closed way - drawback it only traces the top rim, but not the footprint. >> 3) barrier=retaining_wall - this is frequently used on the shooting >> ranges >> in Swìtzerland, behind the targets. But these are in fact earth walls on >> one side and retaining walls on the other. >> >> This is the object that triggers my question: >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/305768541 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging