[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Peter Elderson]

Tagging areas is about the use of the land, or about what covers it.
It needs to be verifiable and easy.
If the use of the land is not known, you still want to map the area.
Somebody else may know more and can add the use.

Land use requires knowledge. It is often not known and not easily
verifiable. It's mostly applied in broad areas which may contain a
variety of landcovers.

Land cover is what you see. It can be mapped and verified by anyone.
Landcover tags can be applied independent of landuse and do not conflict
with existing landuse. This is where micromapping of patches of greenery
comes in.

Patches of greenery have multiple purposes, and sometimes no purpose at
all, it's just there. Without knowing the purpose, Any one can see what
covers this piece of land. It's not especially urban, it's not typically
for landscaping, it may or may not be decorative or shield something, it
occurs everywhere.

So I say, don't worry about what it's for, just tag landcover=greenery.  No
need to cut it out of the broader landuse, whether it's residential,
commercial, industrial or any kind of rural land use.

If you want to be more specific about the type of greenery, either tag a
more specific landcover (grass, trees, scrub[s]) or specify with
greenery=*, maybe with a semicolon separated value list.

Peter Elderson


Op do 4 feb. 2021 om 09:31 schreef Martin Koppenhoefer <
dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

>
>
> sent from a phone
>
> > On 3 Feb 2021, at 19:29, Vincent van Duijnhoven via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand, landuse=bush would in my opinion perfectly fit with
> the other landuse tags like village_green, grass, forest and flowerbed.
>
>
> it would only fit with those values that are misnomers, like grass (not a
> use) or flowerbed (overly specific and often within other landuses like
> residential, highway, etc.). A “bush”
> is a single kind of plant, it isn’t a use or landuse. It could be seen as
> landcover. Can you give some examples of areas where you are searching the
> tag for?
>
> Cheers Martin
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