[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Paul Allen]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 16:48, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This use of “landscaping” is mostly US English and may not be understood
> in most of the world, where British English is standard.
>
> It also lacks precision. Is a decorative garden “landscaping?” How about a
> vegetable garden? Just and area of grass?
>

Like many terms, it seems to have suffered from inflation by marketeers.

When I think of "landscaping" the first thing that comes to mind is
the large-scale landscaping of Chatsworth Park
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House#Park_and_landscape
which occurred over centuries, with perhaps the best-known of
which were the efforts of Lancelot "Capability" Brown.

When I look at what estate agents call "landscaping" they
seem to be labelling molehills as mountains.


> We currently have tags for leisure=garden and landuse=grass and
> landuse=flowerbed, so I recommend focusing on what is missing: a tag for an
> area of cultivated decorative shrubs (aka bushes), which is not a hedge.
>

I also noticed overlaps between existing garden types and some
proposals here, such as garden:style=zen.

>
> The term “shrubs” as the tag value will be the clearest option for
> International users, since “bush” has very different meanings in Australia,
> Africa etc.
>

Yes, but how closely-packed are they?  Could you take a shortcut through
them or do they form an impenetrable barrier (like a hedge except with
more depth)?  It's not just appearance or composition that we need to
be able to account for.

-- 
Paul
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