[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Shrubbery V2

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 15 Jul 2021, at 10:24, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't think you could come up with something that made less semantic sense than your previous proposal but you have surpassed yourself. 


Paul, no need to combine your criticism with an introductory insult. This could have been said the same way without personifying the statement.

I agree with the notion that this would be introducing semantical problems, at least from what I have understood the term “scrub” means, and its application on manicured shrubs in a garden, maybe it is still not too much of a stretch. I think I would appreciate a tag for individual items (natural=shrub), so that natural=scrub remains a tag for areas, and as there is already a well established tag for hedges (barrier=hedge for which the suggested subtag “cultivated” could make sense)

The scrub:density concept seems interesting and worth pursuing, at least regarding the values “sparse” and “dense” I could imagine we come up with a useful and verifiable definition, my suggestion would be “you can easily walk between” and “moving through it requires a lot of time and possibly tools”. Some values in between are needed as well, but I’m not sure it’s only one.

Cheers Martin