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How do you tag salt lakes? |
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Looks like natural=water, salt=yes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:salt 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
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@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
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You can try natural=desert and desert=salt as salt lakes are really deserts made of salt instead of sand or rocks. The Uyuni Salt Lake in Bolivia is tagged like this. See: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/-19.9462/-67.2281
(20 Jan '14, 18:07)
ALE
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...
(06 May '15, 12:23)
joost schouppe
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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. |
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Under wetland you can find Note:
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