There are 533 413 elements with the “leaf_type” key. Only 83 of them have the value “palm”. This are 0.0156 % and certainly not “widely used” at all!
I suppose you want to make a mechanical edit to change the existing 13 056 elements with type=palm. But you would change the description of leaf_type=*. You would destroy the clean description of a clean and well-defined key. An important reasons for the introduction of leaf_type=* was that the previous solutions were too complex, not well coordinated, too detailed – and thought didn’t work well. leaf_type=* is an effort to keep things simple and clear. It’s not good to break this. You should not change the description of leaf_type=*. You should use leaf_type=broadleaved and – if you want – add some other tag to make a more exact description. 2015-03-11 4:54 GMT, Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:01 PM, johnw <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> There are places where there are an amazing mount of Palm trees, and >> confusing them with a broadleaf tree is not great. But is this the main >> way the species (or class or whatever) of tree is defined? I thought there >> was some species tag for this as well - or is it too difficult when >> mapping to know the type of tree beyond it’s leaf? > > There are species and genus tags, but many mappers won't be able to > fill that those. Palm on the other hand is easy, > and makes a great map symbol also. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Lukas Sommer _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
