[Tagging] What exactly is a greenfield?

[John Smith]

On 6 October 2010 07:57, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also agreed. Although there are cases of green grass with big signs
> all around selling off house and land packages. Clearly something will
> be built. Does it matter that construction hasn't technically started
> yet? (IMHO, given the difficulties of keeping OSM  totally up to date,
> not much...)

Usually in those cases they have built roads, so it's not as if there
is nothing on the ground.