[Tagging] Landcover... not again?....!

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 6, 2022, 13:58 by gdt at lexort.com:

> It is ridiculous to tag natural=grass on an installed and maintained
> lawn.  In most places, if you didn't kill everything else and water it,
> you'd end up with something else pretty quickly.  Unless we think
> natural means "something that is alive", which to me isn't what it means
> in en_US and I'm pretty sure not what it means in en_GB.
>
Do you want to also deprecate use of natural=water for canals which are
man-made and maintained by people and would disappear otherwise?

And natural=tree for trees planted in cities which require being watered?

And natural=bare_rock which was exposed by human activity?

etc.

(also, we have landuse=grass already)
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