How do you tag salt lakes? asked 17 Nov '10, 23:53  ALE edited 26 Nov '10, 09:11  TomH ♦♦ |
4 Answers:
You can try natural=desert and desert=salt as salt lakes are really deserts made of salt instead of sand or rocks. answered 18 Nov '10, 06:29  Gnonthgol ♦ |
Under wetland you can find Note:
answered 18 Nov '10, 15:03  katpatuka edited 21 Nov '10, 05:35 |
A salt lake is not necessarily a desert. It is more the prephase of a dry lake which could probably be classified as a desert. Therefore, I would rather use something like natural=water water=salt_lake. But I am not really an expert in this. answered 18 Nov '10, 08:46 ALE edited 20 Jan '14, 18:06 |
Looks like natural=water, salt=yes https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:salt answered 06 May '15, 15:43  neuhausr That looks fine for "a salty lake". But in the mentioned Uyuni Salt Flat for example, most of the time it's a salt desert. Then the rains come and it turns into a very shallow lake for a few months of the year. (06 May '15, 20:14) joost schouppe 1 @joost In that case it's a salt pan and not a salt lake, isn't it? For salt pans natural=desert + desert=salt should be used, see Gnonthgol's answer. (06 May '15, 20:52) scai ♦ should this question be edited if it's not really asking about salt lakes? (06 May '15, 20:57) neuhausr |
The Uyuni Salt Lake in Bolivia is tagged like this. See: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/-19.9462/-67.2281
But that doesn't seem to be rendered on osm.org . I know, don't tag for the render - but it seems strange to tag a salt flat which inundates every year as a desert...