[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Stefan Tauner]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 22:04:23 +0100 (CET)
Vincent van Duijnhoven via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> 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.

I would very much like to have such a tag and it would solve some of
the headaches I perceive when tagging these kind of things ("ok, there
is a tree but most of it is grass, apart from those few bushes in the
corner... oh well, I'll skip mapping that at all" ;). I don't
necessarily see it as exclusive, i.e., we could have both (however, I'd
rather see a combined and independent landcover=bushes/scrubs tag
some day).

> 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=*. 

I pretty much gave up hope for completely logical and consistent keys
so yes, I could live with that too but as you said the defining feature
is the land use: some patches of plants that are not suitable as parking
space for some reason ;)

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner