Hi, >It should be possible to be vague about something when tagging it. There >are several vague tags that I really like and use frequently >(natural=water, natural=grass being my two favorites)
No problem with that at all. (Myself, I also use "landuse=residential" for "from the low-res sat image I can see there must be people living there".) I'm not saying that "natural=water" should be deprecated. I'm just saying that if someone wants to introduce a tagging for lakes or other *special* kinds of water, then there is no technical requirement to tag everything that is tagged with the new lake tag (say, water=lake) as natural=water *also*, because the fact that "water=lake implies natural=water" could be stored externally. Obviously the option of vague tagging must remain, otherwise the lake tag would have to go once the biologists start differentiating between various types of lakes, and in the end we'd end up with a system where nobody can tag anything unless he's one of the world's three experts. "Surface=asphalt you say, hm? Let's take a sample and ship it to the laboratory..." Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
