On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 12:05, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 10:46, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Back to landcover=greenery. >> Is there a proposal for this? >> > >> landcover=plants looks like a better tag to me. >> > > Better, because not ot all plants stay green all year round. > > However, it doesn't cover all common situations. Grass and trees are > better tagged as such, > even though they're both plants. Better tagged as such because they are > visually distinctive, > and part of the reason for mapping details like this is because those > details may aid > navigation. > > I'd argue that the deprecated landcover=shrubs ought to be revived as part > of this exercise. > There are obvious visual differences between grass, bedding plants, shrubs > and trees. > Using natural=shrub doesn't cut it if you want to map a shrubbery like > this: > https://goo.gl/maps/LwNZ2Sk1X8fKxt3j9 > Admittedly, that looks more like a hedge with area than most shrubberies, > but it's not a > match for grass, trees or scrub (it's far more kempt than scrub) and it's > not a good match > for plants. There's no way I could map that as individual shrubs (I can't > even tell where > each one is when I'm standing next to them). Many shrubberies have space > to walk between > the individual shrubs, but I couldn't find a picture of one of those. > > Could we use landcover=plants for it? The acid test is giving somebody > directions. "Turn > left after you go past some plants" vs "turn left after you go past some > shrubs." Which would > you use here? > > Of course, we could have landcover=plants + plants=shrubs, but then we > have to justify > not switching to landcover=plants + plants=grass, landcover=plants + > plants=trees, etc. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 12:05, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using natural=shrub doesn't cut it if you want to map a shrubbery like > this: > https://goo.gl/maps/LwNZ2Sk1X8fKxt3j9 > I'd use barrier=hedge for that one. Yes it's strictly ornamental rather than a livestock barrier, but AFAIK we have no proper distinction for that. -Alan
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