[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

This is not just an urban phenomenon.  Even suburban and rural areas can
have landscaped areas with bushes and plants.  It is common, for example,
for small dividing areas between sections of a parking lot at a shopping
center to have bits of bushes, shrubbery or other plants for
aesthetic/decorative reasons.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:06 PM 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.
>
> 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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