On 09-Jan-17 11:19 AM, Warin wrote:
On 09-Jan-17 08:35 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
Landuse is a tag that is not about what is there - trees, shrubs, flowers,
concrete etc ... but the USE of the area.

A park is used for relaxation.
A recreation_ground is used for recreation (physical activity). And so on.

So the the land use under discussion is green, diminutive, and
decorative yet inaccessible (or inadvisable) -- green median of a dual
carriageway, plantings in a roundabout center -- Do we have a term in
our taxonomy for that, either in landuse=* or some other, and if not,
what should it be?  is that the question ?

landuse=* may be the wrong tag. Landuse studies normally talk about
larger areas than 14m2 ... see [1] "For example a leisure=park tag may
be used to describe a park within a landuse=residential area, or for a
very large park may be the primary landuse. "


the Landuse [1] page decries landuse=grass because it's a cover not a
use,

landuse=grass is for the PRODUCTION of grass - Grass is grown here, harvested (with a little soil) and transported somewhere and planted. Then more grass is grown etc.

In the same way landuse=forest is for the Production of things from the tress grown there.

See http://www.freshturf.co.uk/

but elsewhere [2] it is documented as the appropriate tag for a
roundabout center.

So yes we have a tag in use, but there are reasons it may be wrong.

If plantings are particularly nice, i suppose it could rise to a
    leisure=garden, garden:[type,style]=*, access=no
but the average roundabout or median has a flower box or a mass of
perennials, not anything i or the maintainers of [3] would admit was a
garden.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dgrass
[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dgarden

I have now made a _MAJOR_ change to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dgrass ... to reflect what I think should be there.

Feel free to disagree ... I'll only argue back :)


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