[OSM-talk] mapping grass

[Martijn van Exel]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been facing problems mapping grass. The only mention of grass
> in map features is village_green. My Josm also shows landuse=grass,
> but this is not on the map features page. I have the following types
> of grass:
>
> 1. finely mown grass on golf greens
> 2. mown grass - golf fairways, lawns, cricket grounds - usually not
> more than 1 inch high
> 3. wild grass or grasslands, steppes, prairies ...
> 4. trimmed grass  - in golf rough - trimmed to more than one inch.
>
> I feel all these can be brought under one scheme - but not sure how
> to do it. Suggestions?

I actually have the same issue. There's lots of patches of grass all
over the city here, on the shoulders of roads, between blocks of
houses etc. I've been mapping them as leisure=park which really makes
no sense but at least will have them show up in the default map.

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