[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Mateusz Konieczny]

I am not surprised, but it seems a clear case of incorrect tagging for the renderer
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Incorrect_tagging_for_the_renderer


Feb 3, 2021, 21:29 by zelonewolf at gmail.com:

> I'm surprised to learn that people are using natural=scrub on landscaped areas.  I was under the impression that natural=scrub is used for wild or unmaintained areas, not intentional ornamental landscaping.
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 3:06 PM Jeroen Hoek <> mail at jeroenhoek.nl> > wrote:
>
>> There are a number of problems with the mapping of greenery in built-up
>>  areas. Most of the time mappers use landuse=grass, natural=scrub, and
>>  barrier=hedge, but landuse=grass is not a landuse, natural=scrub is not
>>  that natural, and barrier=hedge mapped as an area has been broken ever
>>  since this commit landed in Carto:
>>  
>>  >> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4200
>>  
>>  So quite annoying on the whole, and any attempts to improve the
>>  situation are stymied by the problem of rendering in Carto, which is
>>  effectively the reference rendering style.
>>  
>>  The problem with landuse=bush I see is that it doesn't really improve
>>  much over natural=scrub. I do agree that it fits in better with
>>  landuse=grass, but it just adds another non-landuse landuse.
>>  
>>  I would really like to see a proposal with a set of tags for patches of
>>  grass, shrubs, and hedge area that can be accepted by the community and
>>  the Carto maintainers some day.
>>  
>>  Personally, I would start with a subset of the relevant landcover=*
>>  tags: >> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/landcover#values
>>  
>>  What I and apparently a number of other mappers do in the mean time is
>>  tag patches of grass and bushes with landuse=grass + landcover=grass and
>>  natural=scrub + landcover=scrub, respectively. This way we can signal
>>  our support for the landcover tags while not breaking rendering for
>>  everybody else, and highlight that we are tagging landcover, not landuse
>>  or natural features.
>>  
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