<div dir="ltr">Hi Rod, hi HOT,<div><br></div><div>Thank you Rod for your message. It really helps to know what may exist and what may not be on the ground.</div><div>What I am trying to do here is a 2-step process:</div><div>1* feature identification</div><div>2* suitable tagging</div><div><br></div><div>First the identification...</div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Rod Bera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rod@goarem.org" target="_blank">rod@goarem.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">I haven't had a look at the area so I can be wrong, but having lived for years in Sahelian cities [...]</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you could have a look at the area, you might be able to recognize the feature in a blink? That would be also very useful to me. A bit of certainty is always welcome.</div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/12.612159/-7.978204" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/12.612159/-7.978204</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now to the tagging.</div><div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Rod Bera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rod@goarem.org" target="_blank">rod@goarem.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><b>I would *NOT* use
leisure=garden</b>, as this is all but for leisure. <br>
In western African cities these garden serve the essential use of
feeding people. [...]<br>they are not into "leisure gardening" this is a serious
and for many a full-time activity, their jobs.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Rod you are opposed to leisure=garden and Pierre is surprised by landuse=farmland.<br></div><div>There is the <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_projects" target="_blank">mapping project</a> focusing on Food security:<br></div><div><ul style="line-height:19.2000007629395px;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>Food security:</b> Volunteers are mapping and tagging sources of healthy, safe, and nutritious food, including urban gardening resources. See the <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Food_security" title="Food security" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">Food security</a> page for ideas.</li></ul></div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Food_security#Community_gardens" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Food_security#Community_gardens</a> [<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">where community members can grow their own produce]</span></div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Food_security#Urban_farms" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Food_security#Urban_farms</a> [<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">where typically a single grower produces food to sell or distribute to the community]</span></div><div>From the Food security mapping project page I got this list of potential tags.</div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* leisure=garden + garden:type=community OR (discussion of better proposal?)</span> landuse=allotments <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div></div></blockquote><div><div>* <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">landuse=farmland + [shop=farm] (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">if produce is sold onsite)</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.2000007629395px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Rod: I would suggest you could voice your opinion on the discussion page or edit the page </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Food_security#Community_gardens" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Food_security</a></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">if you think that '</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">leisure=garden + garden:type=community' is not a suitable proposal.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>I am specifically asking for expertise here and I would humbly receive any on-site knowledge. Unfortunately there is only a limited number of meaningful and established tags in OSM and everyone has to deal with it, even people involved in mapping for Food security.</div><div><br></div><div>For the time being this feature is at least partly identified and is tagged <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">landuse=farmland.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Maybe </span>landuse=allotments can be considered.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best.</div><div><br></div><div>althio</div></div></div></div>