In the discussion about `barrier=hedge` areas, it is clear that mappers want a way to tag small areas of bushes and shrubs, and not everyone is happy about using natural=scrub for this case.
Currently there is a tag landuse=grass for small areas of managed grass, but this might be considered to exclude other non-woody herbs. And leisure=garden is usually considered the whole area of a garden, rather than being limited to a certain type of vegetation. I would suggest that we need a more developed system of tags for micro-mapping small areas of plants, not just woody-stemmed bushes and shrubs, but also semi-annuals, herbaceous perenials (e.g. in the tropics) and annual flowers and herbs. This would also help with problems like using village_green for all sorts of areas: see discussions and examples in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:landuse%3Dvillage_green Rather than just discussing how the tag small areas of bushes or hedges, how about how to tag this area of flowers: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Vg6.jpg Or a garden bed planted with these: https://www.thaigardendesign.com/bird-of-paradise-strelitzia/ - or these: https://www.wikilawn.com/flowers/ornamental-red-ginger-plant-alpinia-purpurata/ Or this bed full of succulent plants, in a semi-arid region: https://www.finegardening.com/app/uploads/sites/finegardening.com/files/images/spotlight-collection/resize_of_pa230150.jpg Are people micro-mapping areas such as these? How specific should the tagging be? - Joseph Eisenberg _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
