Hello Talk I see where you are comming from Karl, and it's a good solution.
However, I do feel that a landuse tag would be better, as in my case here in Cyprus we have fire breaks that are NOT in a wood or forrest. We have a very combustable grass about half a meter in height along the mountains that has fire breaks. Also, as a previous post has mentioned, fire breaks are good navigation aids, and just having them as a track would not make them stand out. As in my case here the vast majority of fire breaks run along a track anyway. Am busy making ravel arrangements to return to the UK, but next week I will make a proposal unless someone has a major objection. David Janda djanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Eichwalder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Janda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <talk@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Fire break advice > "David Janda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> And, as a previous post has pointed out, they can be very wide. So, just >> marking them as a path or whatever will not do I think. >> >> A landuse issue? > > I'd say the fire breaks are part of landuse=forest, but are not covered > by natural=wood: > > +- fire break > | > //================\===/=====================\\ <- > || | | || | > || | | || | > || wood | | wood || forest > || | | || | > || | | || | > \\================/===\=====================// <- > > ^ ^ > |------------- landuse=forest ---------------| > > That's there is a large forest area holding two wood areas separated by > a fire break. The woods are "on top" of the forest and the fire break > is just an empty space in the forest. There is no need to tag is > specially, just put a track (with tracktype=gradeX) in if there is any. > > -- > Karl Eichwalder > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
