[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Paul Allen]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 22:34, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

If it has shrubs, and you can walk around and through it, that
would be a shrubbery.  If it's impenetrable, it's an area hedge.
Of course, it's a spectrum and those are the two endpoints.  Or
maybe those are two extremes along one dimension of a multi-
dimensional space.

Two shrubberies: https://goo.gl/maps/TdcSXd8XWLyogHQ56
although that's stretching the definition a little.  You could force
your way through, but probably wouldn't want to.  You can walk
around them and admire them, though.

Area hedges: https://goo.gl/maps/3eLdgrzEAHdotvCZA
The one behind the two signs is wide and deep.  All are
composed of a mixture of bushes, but the predominant type
has very sharp thorns.  You wouldn't try to force your way
through.  My guess is that they're there because they're
on banks that would have cost too much to level out to
give more parking and they didn't want just grass that
people would take short-cuts over.  Functionally it's
a hedge, but one that is wide as well as long.  It's
not there to be admire, just to act as a barrier and
fill some gaps.

The shrubbery could just about fit into landuse=decorative
(if that existed) but would then need a sub-key to define what
kind of decoration.  Both the shrubbery and area hedge could
just about fit into landcover=shrubs (if we had it).  I wouldn't
describe either as scrub, not natural=scrub or even
unnatural=scrub because scrub is patchy and you can walk
through it.

Time seems to fly by so quickly these days.  It feels like it
was only a couple of months ago we last argued endlessly
over this without reaching a conclusion.

-- 
Paul
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