[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Warin]

On 4/2/21 3:12 pm, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> So, landcover only has two values that have any meaningful amount of 
> usage:


And landscaping has negligible amount of use. I would not put any weight 
on the amount of use something has.

>
> landcover=trees which overlaps with the overwhelmingly more popular 
> natural=wood and landuse=forest
> landcover=grass which overlaps with the overwhelmingly more popular 
> landuse=grass
>
> I personally like the idea of landcover, and I think it was a good 
> idea when Martin introduced it 11 years ago (well before my time on 
> the list) but it hasn't gone to a vote or really caught on in actual 
> tagging.  For example, landcover=water is certainly superior from an 
> ontology perspective to natural=water (which includes man-made 
> reservoirs), but alas here we are.
>
> In an alternate universe where landcover was a widely accepted/used 
> tagging scheme, you might imagine that landcover=landscaping could be 
> a valid top-level tag, with a collection of landscaping=* tags to 
> further define the type of landscaping.

No .. I don't see landscaping as a land cover but as a process of 
establishing and possibly maintaining a particular land cover/s.

Possibly sub tags of

established_by=nature/man/*

maintained_by:nature/man/*


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> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:58 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick 
> <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 10:06, Brian M. Sperlongano
>     <zelonewolf at gmail.com <mailto:zelonewolf at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         What is really being asked for here is tagging to micro-map
>         small landscaping features.  Perhaps there is an opportunity
>         here to create a new top-level key for this purpose.
>
>         I would call this key "landscaping" and it would take the form
>         landscaping=type_of_landscaping.
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>     I like it.
>
>     At what point, though, does landscaping= become landcover=?
>

See above sub tag comment for tags on establishment and maintained.


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