<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">So, landcover only has two values that have any meaningful amount of usage:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>landcover=trees which overlaps with the overwhelmingly more popular natural=wood and landuse=forest</div><div>landcover=grass which overlaps with the overwhelmingly more popular landuse=grass </div><div><br></div><div>I personally like the idea of landcover, and I think it was a good idea when Martin introduced it 11 years ago (well before my time on the list) but it hasn't gone to a vote or really caught on in actual tagging. For example, landcover=water is certainly superior from an ontology perspective to natural=water (which includes man-made reservoirs), but alas here we are. </div><div><br></div><div>In an alternate universe where landcover was a widely accepted/used tagging scheme, you might imagine that landcover=landscaping could be a valid top-level tag, with a collection of landscaping=* tags to further define the type of landscaping.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:58 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 10:06, Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>What is really being asked for here is tagging to micro-map small landscaping features. Perhaps there is an opportunity here to create a new top-level key for this purpose.</div><div><br></div><div>I would call this key "landscaping" and it would take the form landscaping=type_of_landscaping.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I like it.</div><div><br></div><div>At what point, though, does landscaping= become landcover=?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div><br></div></div>
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