[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - shrubbery

[Peter Elderson]

"as OSM evolves, there is a growing need to map more details and
micro-mapping approaches"

I think the need is to keep the simple broad mapping as simple and direct
as possible so any one can join in. Specialisation should build on that,
not replace it.
You don't tag a forest as individual trees with leafcycle and all, even if
you could make beautiful maps if everyone does that. You don't tag scrub or
shrubland by mapping all the bushes, shrubs, grassy patches and sand areas,
even though anyone who wants to tag individual shrubs and knows about can
do that in addition to the more basic approach.

Seen from the perspective of a mapper, a scheme should allow the basic
mapper to tag visible features without much detail, and the expert mapper
(or the mapper with more time) to add more detail. "If you don't have the
details then you can't map the feature", that does not help the map.
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