[Tagging] What exactly is a greenfield?

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Tue Oct 5 13:23:47 BST 2010


  On 10/5/10 7:15 AM, Richard Mann wrote:
> A greenfield site is one that is currently a field, so it should be
> tagged as a field until it gets built on. Nothing should ever be
> tagged "greenfield".
>
> A brownfield site is derelict land that was something once, but is now
> nothing in particular until someone does something with it. A
> "brownfield" tag would therefore make some sense, though I'd probably
> leave it as landuse=industrial (or whatever else it was) and add
> further tags to say that it's derelict.
i concur

landuse=industrial
disused=yes

is pretty consistent with what is getting done now.

richard




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