[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - shrubbery

[Vincent van Duijnhoven]

This definition seems also fine to me

For natural=shrubs "Is a group of shrubs or bushes, characterised by stems with mostly a woody appearance and branches appearing at or close to the ground. In some cases the stem(s) are not woody like f.i. in most cacti and some low growing bamboos."


It wasn't intended to include a path in the definition, it can be ignored.

FWIW, I disagree with the contention by @Vincent that a "shrubbery" MUST contain a path.  He cites wikipedia as his source, but IMHO wikipedia is not infallible.  I could envisage a garden containing a lawn (managed grass), with a collection of planted and managed shrubs beyond it, which would be called a "shrubbery".  I also see little point in mapping an area in OSM to say that "in this area are some tended plants and some paths", but not mapping the paths.
True. But we would advise to tag shrubbery due to it's controversy, by attribution as a specific form of shrub.  Any paths should be mapped separately as paths running through the area tagged as natural=shrubs and shrubs=shrubbery.


A valid argument though cat and car are different things. Scrub, shrub and shrubs are different, similar words for almost the same thing. Without wiki, are the values the descriptive enough?
It is unfortunate that "scrub" and "shrub" differ by only one letter, but we manage to distinguish between a "car" and a "cat" ;-)

Haha, very well said. But also consider that most languages have no decent distinguished translation for "shrubbery".  Scrub is singular, as it describes a single area or group of plants. Shrubs is plural and a keen mapper should be informed and notice this difference.

@Martin:


if it is not woody (specific low growing bamboo), it would be "grass", or not? (I am not a botanic, as you may see from this sentence).
Kind regards,
Vincent
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