[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Vincent van Duijnhoven]

Maybe a random thought. What if we call the tag landuse=urban_greenery and supply that with the appropriate landcover tag like trees, grass, hedge or bush? Then, replace all landuse=grass, forest and natural=scrub with this. Then the focus is really on that it is greenery is a built-up area and actively maintained.

imo these grass fields, group of trees and hedges are the use of land by humans. It is then clearly distinguishable from for example natural=grassland or scrub which are natural features in the wild ( on uncultivated areas). The tag natural=urban_greenery would also be acceptable to me because for example man_made ponds or basins can also be tagged as natural=water + water=*.
 


3 feb. 2021 21:03 van mail at jeroenhoek.nl:

> 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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