[Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads
charlie at cferrero.net
charlie at cferrero.net
Tue Jul 13 11:51:17 BST 2010
Jonathan Bennett (openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk) wrote:
> 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?)
>
I mentioned landuse=grass because it is a documented tag (albeit a
stub, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dgrass) and the
areas in question have been deliberately planted with grass, rather
than being natural (if they were natural they'd be sand). I hadn't
realised that the intention of landuse is to imply use of land for a
particular reason beyond the merely decorative.
> 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.
What it is, is an often extensive man made environment designed for
decorative purposes. Much like a garden, really. But unlike the
leisure=garden concept, you're not really supposed to go inside it,
merely look at it!
--
Charlie
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