<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Please remember that the wiki is intended to document what the common use is, not what the common use should be.<br></div><div>If you want to change the common use please use the available discussion channels before changing the wiki.<br><br></div>Volker</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 January 2017 at 01:42, Warin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_7358015097541942911moz-cite-prefix">On 09-Jan-17 11:19 AM, Warin wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 09-Jan-17 08:35 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Warin
<a class="m_7358015097541942911moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank"><61sundowner@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Landuse is a tag that is not about what
is there - trees, shrubs, flowers,
<br>
concrete etc ... but the USE of the area.
<br>
<br>
A park is used for relaxation.
<br>
A recreation_ground is used for recreation (physical
activity). And so on.
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So the the land use under discussion is green, diminutive, and
<br>
decorative yet inaccessible (or inadvisable) -- green median of
a dual
<br>
carriageway, plantings in a roundabout center -- Do we have a
term in
<br>
our taxonomy for that, either in landuse=* or some other, and if
not,
<br>
what should it be? is that the question ?
<br>
<br>
landuse=* may be the wrong tag. Landuse studies normally talk
about
<br>
larger areas than 14m2 ... see [1] "For example a leisure=park
tag may
<br>
be used to describe a park within a landuse=residential area, or
for a
<br>
very large park may be the primary landuse. "
<br>
<br>
<br>
the Landuse [1] page decries landuse=grass because it's a cover
not a
<br>
use,
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</blockquote>
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landuse=grass is for the PRODUCTION of grass - Grass is grown
here, harvested (with a little soil) and transported somewhere and
planted. Then more grass is grown etc.
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In the same way landuse=forest is for the Production of things
from the tress grown there.
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<br>
See <a class="m_7358015097541942911moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freshturf.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.freshturf.co.uk/</a>
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<blockquote type="cite">but elsewhere [2] it is documented as the
appropriate tag for a
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roundabout center.
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<br>
So yes we have a tag in use, but there are reasons it may be
wrong.
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<br>
If plantings are particularly nice, i suppose it could rise to a
<br>
leisure=garden, garden:[type,style]=*, access=no
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but the average roundabout or median has a flower box or a mass
of
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perennials, not anything i or the maintainers of [3] would admit
was a
<br>
garden.
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[1] <a class="m_7358015097541942911moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Landuse</a>
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[2] <a class="m_7358015097541942911moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dgrass" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dgrass</a>
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[3] <a class="m_7358015097541942911moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dgarden" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dgarden</a>
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I have now made a <u>MAJOR</u> change to
<a class="m_7358015097541942911moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dgrass" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dgrass</a> ... to
reflect what I think should be there. <br>
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Feel free to disagree ... I'll only argue back :)<br>
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