[Tagging] about landcover/landcover=grass

[Warin]

On 23-Apr-17 08:25 PM, muzirian wrote:
> I was going through the landuse=grass. And found this there
>
>  "It is typical that landuse 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse>=*grass* is misused 
> and should be changed to landcover 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landcover>=grass 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landcover%3Dgrass> (for 
> example: patches of grass between tracks in railway corridor - area 
> that should be tagged with landuse 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse>=railway 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Drailway>)."
>
> And landcover=grass has a wiki page but when clicked on landcover it 
> takes me to its proposal which and it doesnt say it has been approved 
> or put to vote.
>
> I was wondering why landcover=grass has a page and directs people to 
> use a tag for whose key hasnt been well documented or approved.

The situation is well presented on the landcover page 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover

Show me where landuse has been put to a vote or approved?

landuse=grass would be vehemently rejected by many it it ever came up 
for discussion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The fact is that landcover=grass is much much better to describe any 
area covered by grass.
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