Jonathan Bennett (openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk) wrote:
On 13/07/2010 07:37, char...@cferrero.net wrote:
How might I go about tagging the often quite extensive green
stretches of land to the side of larger roads here in Abu Dhabi
(and indeed in many parts of the world)? Sometimes this is just
grass (in which case landuse=grass kind of makes sense) but often
this is a mixture of grass, trees and decorative plants in varying
proportions. In many cases it kind of looks like a park, but
no-one in their right mind would actually try to use it as such
(and indeed, in central reservations they'd have to be suicidal to
try).
One idea might be:
leisure=garden or leisure=park combined with access=no
but this seems a bit like tag gymnastics to me.
surface=grass is about all you can justify. They're certainly not parks
or gardens (and landuse=grass is just wrong. You're using the land
*for* grass? What does that mean?)
I mentioned landuse=grass because it is a documented tag (albeit a
stub, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dgrass) and the
areas in question have been deliberately planted with grass, rather
than being natural (if they were natural they'd be sand). I hadn't
realised that the intention of landuse is to imply use of land for a
particular reason beyond the merely decorative.
Use the tags to describe what it is, and if it's just miscellaneous
ground that's not really doing anything, then just map it as part of
the surrounding area.
What it is, is an often extensive man made environment designed for
decorative purposes. Much like a garden, really. But unlike the
leisure=garden concept, you're not really supposed to go inside it,
merely look at it!
--
Charlie
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