[OSM-talk] Vegetation page

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
> What the hell is "official"? This is a community driven project!

Hopefully there is a difference between a democracy and anarchy.

> We need to get a world-wide usable description for it. If we can't get
> one, we should mark it as deprecated.

Well...a highly specific tag that meets a specific purpose is not
causing harm. But the lack of useful tags for the rest of the world
is.

There are already several words for grass, and I wish there were more.
Two in particular:
1) Lawn. As in, short-cut grass that is nice to sit on. Useful in the
context of large built up areas where the lawn has some sort of
decorative purpose, or within gardens, etc. Clearly not a meadow, nor
pasture, nor fell ground...and "park" isn't going to cut it either.
2) Public grass, as described before.

Steve