[Tagging] Village green (was Re: Feature Proposal - RFC - Shrubbery V2)

[Peter Elderson]

In Nederland, all villages used to have a central place for community
activities, the "Brink". Many are still there usually as a square, often
still called "Brink",
or a small park. Some have more or less retained the function. Other areas
have been assigned community functions that were traditionally assigned to
these brinks. So in principle, we could still map them as village_green's ,
if there was any point to that and if verifiability wasn't required.

On the other hand, the Dutch call pieces of greenery in villages and cities
"Gemeentegroen".. Literal translation: 'municipality green', i.e. city or
village green. Easy to see how that translates into wrong tagging. Every
new Dutch mapper runs into this issue and makes the same mistake.

That explains in part why we are very keen to offer an approved alternative
for these little green areas. They are not scrubland, but since there is no
rendering alternative, most start tagging them as tiny scrub areas. Tiny
forests, tiny gardens and tiny orchards are also popular.
Seems like other countries have the same issue.

Peter Elderson


Op vr 23 jul. 2021 om 15:20 schreef Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org>:

> On 16.07.2021 17:47, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > agreed, it was too absolute to write "outside of Britain", after all
> Britains have left their traces
> > on large parts of the globe. If these are common in New England,
> Australia, or whereever, feel free
> > to use the tag. I know that they aren't common in Germany, despite there
> are 16,6k uses of the tag:
>
> In Germany there is the "Anger" or "Dorfanger" matching that definition,
> and it's the same wikidata
> object as village green: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57743
>
> You are right however that the tagging is frequently misused for any green
> stuff that has no central
> character.
>
> tom
>
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