I am not a land cover expert, but have come across a great number of obviously wrong land cover tagging in OSM. Said this, why not try to use CORINE [1] definitions?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_of_Information_on_the_Environment On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, 11:52 Christoph Hormann, <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > > > > Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> hat am 13. Juli 2020 um > 22:34 geschrieben: > > > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrishunkeler/32097822997 > > > > I think this is a great example why more specific tags are advisable to > use in OSM than a generic bare ground tag. > > What this picture shows is commonly known as desert pavement: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_pavement > > Apart from varying in size distribution and density as well as material of > the stones these form a fairly characteristic surface that can and should > be mapped distinctly. As size of the larger stones strongly affects > navigability, specifying that would be a valuable supplemental tag. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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