[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Garden specification)

"Petr Morávek [Xificurk]" xificurk at gmail.com
Tue May 18 21:56:46 BST 2010


M∡rtin Koppenhoefer napsal(a):
> Thanks for putting this up. I would actually try to reduce some of it
> to the necessary:
> "The most common form of garden, located in proximity to a residence,
> usually private access only. The main purpose is usually relaxation
> activities. " - I would delete "The main purpose is usually relaxation
> activities. " because it restricts without benefit.

By this I have tried to incorporate the idea that in case of residential
garden it doesn't really matter if you have a nice garden in the french
style or a plain lawn.

> "Botanical gardens are generally well-tended parks displaying a wide
> range of plants labeled with their botanical names. They may contain
> specialist plant collections such as cacti and succulent plants, herb
> gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on."
> I would put it more into a scientific context: "Botanical gardens are
> scientifically structured and labelled collections of living plants
> with the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display and
> education."

This was mostly copied out of wikipedia, but your definition is better,
I would just change the last "and" to "or".

> " garden:style=kitchen - These gardens have usually no aesthetic
> function, they're used for growing vegetable, herbs, etc. "
> 
> I would delete "These gardens have usually no aesthetic function"
> because it is IMHO not usefull and depends on taste.

Makes sense, I'll change that

> Are there any ideas how to solve the problem that this more or less
> obsoletes leisure=park? Shall we allow the values garden:type and
> garden:style for parks as well? This could be done by simply avoiding
> the prefix ("type" and "style" without the garden).

I have thought about that, but...
1) We need the prefix, so it is clear type/style of what we are tagging.
2) It is true that leisure=park is somewhat similar to the garden, but I
still consider a park as more or less grassy area with fewer plants, or
at least smaller variety. And personally I don't know any area where I
would hesitate if I should tag it as a park or garden - usually most of
the local folks call it one way or the other and the area often has one
of the words in its name.
3) This could in theory incorporate many of other tags like
landuse=allotments,vineyard,orchard etc., but I guess these are meant
for rather large scale, and I think they should stay where they are
(landuse key). I think leisure=garden should be located exclusively in
landuse=recreation_ground, or residential (for garden:type=residential),
maybe even landuse=allotments if anyone wants to tag each property
separately.

Regards,
Petr

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