[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

[Bert -Araali- Van Opstal]

Thank you for the confirmation Brian. I agree the attribute "managed"
could work, especially because it is linked to the top level key
natural. The wiki page of "managed" doesn't provide much detail but
suggests additional values like grazing and can contain earlier
suggestions like slashing and burning. On the discussion page there was
an opinion that "managed" describes a process, not it's usage, which I
fully agree.
So it's why I suggested to use "denotation" as an additional optional
attribute, which can further specify it's "use" or "usage" or
"purpose".  There is obvious a need since it is discussed and one of the
primary needs of the proposal  writer.  I agree that "decorative", or in
this case "landscaping" is not a process but the result of it, to
achieve it's purpose.  Much similar as "denotation" is now used for
similar natural=tree to denote them as ornamental, landmark etc...
similar it allows the mapper to denote the scrub as decorative, landmark
or whatever, independent if it is managed or not.  Both attributes would
be optional of course. 
Additionally, even in the field it can be often hard to determine how or
if the scrub is managed, still managed or not. Determining if it is
decorative, a landscaping feature or other denotation, although often
still in many cases subjective, can more easily be obtained from locals
or indications like a sign or similar
What is your opinion about that or do you have other suggestions ?

Greetings,

Bert Araali

On 14/02/2021 01:45, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> I think the general notion that we could tag these landscaping areas
> as natural=scrub has merit.  There is certainly an inherent advantage
> in using a tag that already renders as well.
>
> There is still a need to distinguish between
> manicured/groomed/landscaped areas and simply natural scrubland.  The
> "managed" key seems like it could work for that.  The current
> description for managed=yes is "landscape or signs indicate management
> but kind is unclear" which is not quite on the mark, and so I wonder
> if a new value of "managed" is needed in these cases, or if
> managed=yes should cover the case.
>
> Certainly a render that cares to draw these differently would want to
> have a way to tell landscaping apart from scrubland.
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