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<div>Maybe a random thought. What if we call the tag landuse=urban_greenery and supply that with the appropriate landcover tag like trees, grass, hedge or bush? Then, replace all landuse=grass, forest and natural=scrub with this. Then the focus is really on that it is greenery is a built-up area and actively maintained.<br></div><div><br></div><div>imo these grass fields, group of trees and hedges are the use of land by humans. It is then clearly distinguishable from for example natural=grassland or scrub which are natural features in the wild ( on uncultivated areas). The tag natural=urban_greenery would also be acceptable to me because for example man_made ponds or basins can also be tagged as natural=water + water=*.<br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>3 feb. 2021 21:03 van mail@jeroenhoek.nl:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>There are a number of problems with the mapping of greenery in built-up<br></div><div>areas. Most of the time mappers use landuse=grass, natural=scrub, and<br></div><div>barrier=hedge, but landuse=grass is not a landuse, natural=scrub is not<br></div><div>that natural, and barrier=hedge mapped as an area has been broken ever<br></div><div>since this commit landed in Carto:<br></div><div><br></div><div>https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4200<br></div><div><br></div><div>So quite annoying on the whole, and any attempts to improve the<br></div><div>situation are stymied by the problem of rendering in Carto, which is<br></div><div>effectively the reference rendering style.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The problem with landuse=bush I see is that it doesn't really improve<br></div><div>much over natural=scrub. I do agree that it fits in better with<br></div><div>landuse=grass, but it just adds another non-landuse landuse.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would really like to see a proposal with a set of tags for patches of<br></div><div>grass, shrubs, and hedge area that can be accepted by the community and<br></div><div>the Carto maintainers some day.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I would start with a subset of the relevant landcover=*<br></div><div>tags: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/landcover#values<br></div><div><br></div><div>What I and apparently a number of other mappers do in the mean time is<br></div><div>tag patches of grass and bushes with landuse=grass + landcover=grass and<br></div><div>natural=scrub + landcover=scrub, respectively. This way we can signal<br></div><div>our support for the landcover tags while not breaking rendering for<br></div><div>everybody else, and highlight that we are tagging landcover, not landuse<br></div><div>or natural features.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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