[Tagging] Planters

[Johan Jönsson]

Andy Carter <osm at ...> writes:
> On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012 11:24:13 John Sturdy wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Johan Jönsson <johan.j at ...> wrote:
> 
> > > Seems absolute spot on as a large flower-pot used as decoration or as a
> > > barrier. Since we do not have a key for this kind of less noticeable
> > > decorations (as I know of) lets use barrier.
> > >
> > > barrier=planter
> > 
> > But they're not always barriers!
> 
> Indeed they are not. 
> 
> The example has a brick planter at each end of the market place with 
bollards 
> either side so are effectively acting as barriers. 
> 
> The wooden seats/planters are decorative/architectural features but not 
> barriers in any reasonable sense.
> 

My suggestion is to use 
man_made=planter 
for these, wherever they appear.

If they are used as barriers on a road, add also barrier=planter or 
barrier=yes and necessary access-tags to a node on the way. (this is a variant 
on the barrier=block. 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dblock) 

If they are used for traffic calming to form a choker or chicane, be sure to 
tag that part of the road with traffic_calming=choker or chicane. 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:traffic_calming