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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/03/19 19:00, Marián Kyral wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
<div>recently was dropped [1] the leisure=common rendering from
openstreetmap-carto as it is "misused" by mappers. A suggested
replacements are: *leisure=park, landuse=grass and/or
landuse=farmland*. But there are many places around, that are
not official park and not grass as there are some trees as well.
Typically a small areas in the city between apartment buildings.
These areas are not official parks, gardens or grass. It is just
a green accessible for everoyne. So we can say it is a *public*
or *common* green.</div>
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<div>So question is, how to tag it? There is also tag
landuse=village_green [2], but I don't like the word "village"
there and as well, there are plans to remove it, because it has
the same issue as leisure=common.</div>
<div>On landuse=village_green wiki, there is a nice sentence:
*Such use of the tag is incorrect, and a better tagging for
these situations needs to be defined.*<br>
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<div>So is the right time to do it now? What tag/tags we should
use for such pieces of green that are too small or to be a park,
are not a garden and are public accessible.</div>
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<div>What about e.g.: landuse=public_green? It could be also
extended by tags like trees=yes, scrub=yes or public_green=grass
/ public_green=flowers.</div>
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Separate things...<br>
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Land use<br>
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verses <br>
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Land cover<br>
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Try not to mix them up. <br>
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Usually the cover does not follow the 'use' 100% so map them
individually, the tree area separate from grass, flowers, rock etc.
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natural=wood for the tree area<br>
natural=bare_rock for rocks <br>
man_made=<span class="searchmatch">flower</span>_bed for flowers<br>
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Grass is unfortunate in that most tag it as a 'landuse=grass' when
it is actually 'landcover=grass'. I use both tags, one for the
render the other for clarity. <br>
Concrete has no primary tag .. so I'd use landcover=concrete, it
will not render. If it is a pedestrian way then tag the area as
highway=pedestrian, surface=concrete. <br>
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Public? That is an access thing ... and as everyone has access there
is no need to add a tag access=* - so leave it off and be happy. <br>
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Now the problem of land use. <br>
A small areas in the city between apartment buildings is not a
'common'. Nor a 'park'. <br>
I would simply say it is part of the residential area .. and leave
it at that. So landuse=residential if it is not already part of a
greater landuse=residential area. <br>
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