Drop rendering for landuse=field, military=barracks, and natural=desert

[matthijsmelissen]

Rationale for military=barracks:
We have landuse=military for the area already, and the buildings
themselves are just as well rendered as regular builidings.

Rationale for landuse=desert:
Ergs (sand dunes) are better tagged as natural=sand.
Other type of deserts don't have strict borders.

Rationale for landuse=field:
This is duplicate with landuse=farmland and landuse=grass.

Resolves #589.
Resolves #773.
Resolves #1053 (superceded).
Resolves #1072 (superceded).
Resolves #1074 (superceded).

[kocio-pl]

+1 for dropping military=barracks.

[nebulon42]

+1
Field is already rendered like farmland, right? Why is it duplicate with grass?

[matkoniecz]

Note also that http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:military%3Dbarracks has "Status: Unspecified", http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfield describes tag as abandoned and rejected, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Ddesert is mainly warning that it is not verifiable.

[matkoniecz]

Also, maybe there is some potential in using natural=desert for labels but it requires at least (1) improving natural=desert proposal, including solving "deserts don't have strict borders" problem, (2) finding method to properly display labels for large scale features (at least repeating labels are necessary).

[dieterdreist]

2015-01-06 1:00 GMT+01:00 math1985 notifications@github.com:

Rationale for military=barracks:
We have landuse=military for the area already, and the buildings
themselves are just as well rendered as regular builidings.

I'd render a name for military=barracks. This is not to be confused with
landuse=military, which doesn't constitute an entity (like barracks does,
which are typically named, fenced etc.), but is rather a landuse attribute
for an area (e.g. can be arbitrarily split without loosing information),
i.e. it tells that the main usage of the tagged area is by the military,
but it doesn't tell for what it is used.

Please note that barracks can be very big features, useful for orientation
and "advertized" by street signs.