What would be the tag for a disused colliery tip? thanks. asked 12 Aug '13, 15:36 Burton wanderer aseerel4c26 ♦ |
Hi here’s a link to the region of Belgium, a mining residue is called Terrill (France), http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/50.3918/4.4309 since most Terrills or pits are reused there’s hardly a tag. Consider landuse - colliery, colliery:disused or abandoned -fi coal_mine. Or use historic instead of disused / abandoned, both are not appropriate since the mine is hardly or impossible to reopen. answered 12 Aug '13, 20:20 Hendrikklaas |
Some information on how to map specific objects are on the wiki page at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features . If you have something that is disused, the osm preference for that is the Another good way to see how to tag a specific thing is to look at others in the are and see how they are tagged. And taginfo, as mentioned. A prominent german colliery tip is tagged simply as So, to sum it up:
answered 12 Aug '13, 16:22 gormo |
As always in OSM, there is no definitive answer to those more exotic tagging questions. You can always use an English dictionary and the http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org site to determine likely candidates.
is used 258 times and probably the most appropriate one, at least in my opinion. answered 12 Aug '13, 16:07 Chaos99 |
You might want to edit the title of your question to be a little bit more specific. This doesn't stand out much in the list of questions.
Thanks one and all, will take note.