[Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

["Petr Morávek [Xificurk]"]

I would be glad if we could resolve the question of how to tag private
backyards/gardens or whatever you want to call that in one word - I mean
the green area around family houses, often only grass, sometimes few
trees or other plants (varying from roses to a bed of carrot), usually
fenced and definitely no public access.

I assume this area goes under landuse='residential', so whatever other
tag goes there, it shouldn't be landuse. Some people tag this as
leisure='garden', but in my opinion a lawn behind a family house hardly
qualifies for this tag, in fact according to the descriptions on wiki
it's more consistent with leisure='park'... I think neither of them is
correct.

To the proposed solutions in this thread:
* highway=pedestrian, area=yes - It doesn't really make sense to me to
tag private fenced and _green_ areas by highway tag.

* surface=grass, surface=lawn, surface=whatever - I don't like this
because what I really want to map is not that my neighbour has a lawn
behind his house, but the fact that there is a private "green" property
- I think it makes no sense to try to map and tag every piece of these
areas like "this" is grass, "this" is a bed of carrot, "there" are
roses, "here" we have some bushes etc.

* leisure='garden' or leisure='park' - see above


Best regards,
Petr Morávek

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