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

[John Smith]

2010/5/15 "Petr Morávek [Xificurk]" <xificurk at gmail.com>:
> That's the thing, I'm not convinced that a lawn should be tagged as
> leisure=garden just because it's behind a fence around a family house.

To me it isn't the lawn that makes the garden, but the fact that the
garden can be viewed as a relaxation area adjoining the home outside.

> But I'm slowly changing my mind and a good subtagging could be the right
> way to go... the problem is that currently leisure=garden alone is used
> for a lot of different areas and it's becoming useless without better
> usage description on wiki.

highway=road is equally useless, but it's used as a place marker until
someone adds additional information, you need to think of OSM as an
evolutionary process going from nothing to something approaching a
complete map...