But isn't the main characteristic of a village green / village common that is is a rather large, open area ? I am thinking of a large grass field in the centre of the town, but it could probably be paved as well (or sand or ...) OTOH The use of landcover=greenery is meant for "small" patches of bushes / flowers/ trees/ grass that you find in and out of towns.
m. On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 12:38 PM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think they are at least close to the village, if not within it, in the UK > and Australia. > > On 19/07/19 16:04, Peter Elderson wrote: > > Hm.. village_common still says village, where often these areas are no longer > in a village. > > Vr gr Peter Elderson > > > Op vr 19 jul. 2019 om 00:42 schreef Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: >> >> As Kevin Kenny says. >> >> The key 'landuse' is big misused for land covers. >> >> And this predominately is because of the tag landuse=grass. >> While this exists OSM can expect the key 'landuse' to be used (misused) for >> land covers of all descriptions. >> >> If the key 'landuse' is only used for the human use of the land - free of >> any hint of the cover then there may be some hope of resolving >> 'village_green'. >> In Australia there is the 'village common' - land held for common use, this >> might get away form the 'green' aspect of grass. The rendering colour could >> also be closer to that of schools and hospitals, again away from the colour >> green. >> >> >> On 19/07/19 07:59, Peter Elderson wrote: >> >> In Nederland there are many of village_green like areas, used for community >> events, but without a formal status. I would support tagging these as >> village_green. Larger cities tend to have several of these areas, often >> because villages have been incorporated but the central area has retained >> its function as "village green" in the neighourhood. Let's join the >> countries that already do this. >> >> I would also gladly help retagging areas wrongly tagged as village_green. >> It's used a lot but nothing we couldn't fix in a project, if we agree on a >> clear convention. >> >> Vr gr Peter Elderson >> >> >> Op do 18 jul. 2019 om 23:31 schreef Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:07 AM marc marc <marc_marc_...@hotmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > The only way to have a chance to get away with it is to depreciate >>> > this tag (at least outside uk but maybe also in uk) in favor of a tag >>> > by meaning instead of having a multi-meaning tag >>> >>> landuse=grass is horrible, since it describes a landcover rather than >>> a land use, but it's plausible for those things that aren't village >>> greens. >>> >>> If you make an exception inside the UK for 'village_green', remember >>> that some of us former colonies have them too. Lots of New England >>> villages follow the general pattern of villages in Merrie Olde >>> England, and (at least historically) have a village hall, a school, a >>> church, and shops clustered about a village green or common. (All the >>> buildings in modern times may have been repurposed, but the village >>> green is likely still there.) >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
