[Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

Jonathan Bennett openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk
Tue Jul 13 11:28:43 BST 2010


  On 13/07/2010 07:37, charlie at cferrero.net wrote:
> How might I go about tagging the often quite extensive green stretches 
> of land to the side of larger roads here in Abu Dhabi (and indeed in 
> many parts of the world)?  Sometimes this is just grass (in which case 
> landuse=grass kind of makes sense) but often this is a mixture of 
> grass, trees and decorative plants in varying proportions.  In many 
> cases it kind of looks like a park, but no-one in their right mind 
> would actually try to use it as such (and indeed, in central 
> reservations they'd have to be suicidal to try).
>
> One idea might be:
> leisure=garden or leisure=park combined with access=no
> but this seems a bit like tag gymnastics to me.
surface=grass is about all you can justify. They're certainly not parks 
or gardens (and landuse=grass is just wrong. You're using the land *for* 
grass? What does that mean?)

Use the tags to describe what it is, and if it's just miscellaneous 
ground that's not really doing anything, then just map it as part of the 
surrounding area.




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