<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 3, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Gerd Petermann <<a href="mailto:gpetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com" class="">gpetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I would use leisure=garden, but I assume I must be missing something as you didn't pick this (obvious) tag. Can you explain why you don't want to use/think abotu/like this tag ?</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The wiki page [1] starts with "<span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">A garden is a distinguishable planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> " This seems like a good match to me.</span></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 3, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" class="">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I too would tag leisure=garden .. if you want you could add sub tags ... garden=decorative_flowers?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From reading the description - yes the whole thing is a “garden” - because it is cultivated and prepared for enjoyment. I’ll agree to that. maybe a garden=flower_field is a good subtag for the whole thing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But just as hedge, grass, or tree is part of a larger park or garden, so are these individual fields part of the larger spectacle (the hill set is a named thing in the park). There are several sections of fields I would like to tag individually and name the whole hill set a garden. Just having the garden tag gives no indication that it is a flower field spectacle. a field I want to tag:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/javbw/11094091376/in/album-72157638113676925/" class="">https://www.flickr.com/photos/javbw/11094091376/in/album-72157638113676925/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A farm may have several fields of farmland that make up the whole farm, and here there are several fields that make up this big spectacle that can be called a garden. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are several other types of plant based tourist attractions that are man-made, but are a part of a larger thing. They are tourist attractions, some stand alone, like the flower fields in Carlsbad (planted for decoration, usually visible from the freeway meant to invoke holland), or rice art here in Asia, and some are smaller parts of larger facilities (these fields, or individual fields in a large flower field garden). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ikaho Iris Garden </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/javbw/11091328063/in/album-72157638113676925/" class="">https://www.flickr.com/photos/javbw/11091328063/in/album-72157638113676925/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The facility <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/1ckmurkbTb32" class="">https://goo.gl/maps/1ckmurkbTb32</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The carlsbad flower fields, described as a garden:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.google.co.jp/maps/place/The+Flower+Fields/@33.1264291,-117.3234641,1850m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xfa8be23ae60ee66c!6m1!1e1" class="">https://goo.gl/maps/UxtBUSKt36u</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They sell flowers in their garden center, they have a parking lot and shop, a snack stand and walking paths & access roads. That entire thing is the “garden” - how do I tag the individual fields? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">here is a news story on the fields planted every year to make an image as a tourist attraction in Japan. This one is a permanent attraction (the art is there every year. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/18/tiny-town-in-northern-japan-creates-gorgeous-gigantic-artwork-out-of-rice-paddies-" class="">http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/18/tiny-town-in-northern-japan-creates-gorgeous-gigantic-artwork-out-of-rice-paddies-</a>【video】/</div><div class="">** Link includes this whitespace & slash ** </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 3, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Dave Swarthout <<a href="mailto:daveswarthout@gmail.com" class="">daveswarthout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">Thailand has sunflower fields - actually a Japanese variety if I recall correctly.</span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>You reminded me that every September, my city has a horseback archery competition at a special spot near a park. The backdrop is fields of sunflowers they grow for people to take pictures in. They put a little raised platform up for viewing, and have a little festival for the flower viewing. In this case, it is not a farm field, but something greater. <br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;"><br class=""></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The fields themselves are a thing. I want to tag that thing. it is not a crop. And then I want to tag many of them inside a larger thing called a park/garden. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">we have a method to tag trees or groups of trees in a park that are grown for artistic purposes (not food):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(winter sakura in Sakurayama Park) </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/javbw/11091195995/in/album-72157638113676925/" class="">https://www.flickr.com/photos/javbw/11091195995/in/album-72157638113676925/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but not for non-tree non-hege “man-made” things AFAIK</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Hitachinaka park has other fields of 50,000 daffodils that bloom in the spring - I want to say “this area is the actual field that is full of flowers / decorative plants grown for artistic/asthetic purposes” that is inside a larger garden/park. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I was tagging the large fields in a garden, it would end up with gardens nested inside gardens. These aren’t crop fields (well the rice is, but the art isn’t), and not hedges, nor orchards, so is there some kind of tag for a field that is man-made that is full of flowers as an artistic/natural spectacle? If not, I would like suggestions on what to create/tag it as such. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just having landcover=flowers might do the trick. it would work well to fill in all kinds of places where flowers are usually kept (like at the Rose park I stopped tagging after running into this issue last year) - tagging the individual sections of parking, walkways, grass, woods, hedges, bike paths, and greenhouses is easy - but the actual flowers? seems to be difficult. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>