On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM, <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.
This is a perennial question. Limitations with existing responses: surface=grass: yes, but this is missing the point. That's like describing a building as surface=brick. Would we use a different tag for the brief sections that are garden, or tan bark, or concrete or whatever? landuse=grass: sounds very much like a placeholder. "I'm not sure what this land is used for, it's used for...grass". leisure=garden: sure, it looks like a garden, but it's not intended for anyone to visit. The right tag would involve a concept like "roadside vegetation", "nature strip", "council-maintained lawn" or something similar. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging