[Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

[Richard Mann]

surface=grass 3263 occurrences, 3121 with a highway tag in the UK

Feel free to use surface=grass for landcover if you want to. But
people are more likely to use your data if you use landuse=grass.

Richard

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:38 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2010 20:47, Richard Mann
> <richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> There are 6695 landuse=grass in the UK. They're not turf farms.
>>
>> surface=grass is for highways
>
> surface=* isn't just for highways any more... because landuse=grass is
> silly, as Jonathan pointed out, grass isn't a use... landuse v land
> cover (surface)
>
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