Author: JohnSmith
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.09am, Monday, 12th April 2010]

After further comments on the tagging list it should be surface=sand.

Author: dieterdreist
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.12pm, Saturday, 29th January 2011]

Replying to [comment:1 JohnSmith]:

After further comments on the tagging list it should be surface=sand.

After further comments on the tagging list this should be landcover=sand.

Author: JohnSmith
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.26pm, Saturday, 29th January 2011]

Replying to [comment:2 dieterdreist]:

Replying to [comment:1 JohnSmith]:

After further comments on the tagging list it should be surface=sand.

After further comments on the tagging list this should be landcover=sand.

Why should it, so far no one has shown how landcover=* is better, in fact it just makes things worst because it ends up duplicating surface=* for no good reason and surface=* is widely used already.

Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.36pm, Saturday, 29th January 2011]

Replying to [comment:2 dieterdreist]:

Replying to [comment:1 JohnSmith]:

After further comments on the tagging list it should be surface=sand.

After further comments on the tagging list this should be landcover=sand.

After further comments off list we're now rendering natural=sand.

Author: JohnSmith
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.39pm, Saturday, 29th January 2011]

Replying to [comment:4 Ldp]:

Replying to [comment:2 dieterdreist]:

Replying to [comment:1 JohnSmith]:

After further comments on the tagging list it should be surface=sand.

After further comments on the tagging list this should be landcover=sand.

After further comments off list we're now rendering natural=sand.

And this is why this bug was filed, natural=sand might be ok for a beach, however it doesn't fit for things like beach volleyball courts and golf bunkers.

Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.44pm, Saturday, 29th January 2011]

You're right. For those you would use, in order:

• natural=beach (+ surface=sand)
• leisure=pitch + sport=beachvolleybal (+ surface=sand)
• sport=golf (+ surface=sand) + .... well, I don't know what this month's flavour of golf tagging (for a bunker) is.

In short, surface is regarded as a supporting tag, giving extra information. It is not a main tag in and of itself. We can't render surface=sand as-is, without there being a main tag to say what feature has a sand surface. And even then, we're likely to just render that main tag, not taking any surface=* into account.

Author: JohnSmith
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.50pm, Saturday, 29th January 2011]

Replying to [comment:6 Ldp]:

You're right. For those you would use, in order:

• natural=beach (+ surface=sand)
• leisure=pitch + sport=beachvolleybal (+ surface=sand)
• sport=golf (+ surface=sand) + .... well, I don't know what this month's flavour of golf tagging (for a bunker) is.

In short, surface is regarded as a supporting tag, giving extra information. It is not a main tag in and of itself. We can't render surface=sand as-is, without there being a main tag to say what feature has a sand surface. And even then, we're likely to just render that main tag, not taking any surface=* into account.

Why does it matter what the main tag is, any area with surface=sand just needs to be a yellowish colour then you don't need to know/care what the main tag is, and it will still render.

Author: dieterdreist
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.18am, Friday, 13th May 2011]

IMHO surface=sand will not work on natural=beach, because there will also be buildings and paved areas on beaches, which are not surface sand, but still they are on the beach (so natural=beach will include the buildings and paved areas, surface=sand won't).

Author: JohnSmith
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.42am, Friday, 13th May 2011]

Replying to [comment:8 dieterdreist]:

IMHO surface=sand will not work on natural=beach, because there will also be buildings and paved areas on beaches, which are not surface sand, but still they are on the beach (so natural=beach will include the buildings and paved areas, surface=sand won't).

That's grasping at straws, since overlapping polygons is already solved. Assuming of course that the polygons overlap.

Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.59pm, Tuesday, 20th May 2014]

This has been resolved in the meanwhile.