[Imports] Beginner, and Permaculture Designer, in Brussels, Belgium

[Andy Townsend]

On 15/06/18 06:44, Nigel Stewart wrote:
>
> ... ANY THOUGHTS on this might well be very useful - ESPECIALLY as I 
> hoping to create a "turn-key solution" so anyone can use the "How to 
> co-create forest gardens for themselves".

Assuming you mean "How to map a forest garden in OpenStreetMap" rather 
than "actually planting things":

OpenStreetMap uses a series of keys and values so a garden might be 
tagged as "leisure=garden".  OSM editors often hide these keys and 
values behind a series of presets, but the various OSM editors have ways 
of seeing the underlying tags as well (in the default web-based editor 
there's an "all tags" option that can be used to show them).

With anything a bit unusual I'd suggest looking to see what people might 
have done already.  One way of doing that is "taginfo" 
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/ - you can search for keys and values 
there.  From there you can see "combinations" (other tags that people 
have used with "leisure=garden"), and get to the wiki page 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aleisure%3Dgarden where you can 
see the community documentation for that tag and value.

You may find that you're the first person to map the sort of thing that 
you're describing here, which means that you might need to invent some 
tag values to use. That's perfectly OK, but anything quite specialised 
probably won't get rendered by common OSM maps (though it's actually not 
that difficult to create your own map based on OSM data).

If you'd like to discuss the best tags to use the "tagging" list might 
be the place to start https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging 
.  This list ("imports") won't be read by many people interested in 
discussing tagging, so you probably won't get many replies here.  You 
could also try asking on IRC - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC . 
I mentioned your post to someone with a biological interest there and 
they mentioned https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SK53/Garden (a 
discussion page about how you might tag some things) - you may want to 
borrow some of the ideas there, or might feel that a different scheme 
would be better for you.

Anyway, hope this helps!

Best Regards,

Andy