On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 07:16:36AM -0500, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > How is this different from other tagging discussions?
tagging discussion is only the last step. Before it can happen we need to have a pretty good model of what we want to map and then decide how it could be mapped. Most of us have a pretty good working model of a road and a house in our head which make it easy to skip the modeling phase and go to tagging discussion. Apparently this is not so easy with vegetation, geology and other natural phenomena which require considerable special knowledge to select a suitable data model. Even in the relatively familiar case of vegetation our model to map it is highly unsatisfactory becuase it went to tagging discussion before researching a suitable model. Our model of geology is limitted to mapping single_stones, bare_rocks and cliffs. Would it be possible to do this better? I have no idea, it is something that should be discussed but is not a tagging discussion. Simple things like mapping corral reefs are still not available. Would it be possible to map the Gulf stream or other currents? Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
