[Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

2010-07-13 Thread charlie
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

Re: [Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

2010-07-13 Thread Jonathan Bennett
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

Re: [Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

2010-07-13 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 13/07/2010 11:32, John Smith wrote: On 13 July 2010 20:28, Jonathan Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: gardens (and landuse=grass is just wrong. You're using the land *for* grass? What does that mean?) Turf farm? landuse=agriculture crop=grass or crop=turf Nice try, though.

Re: [Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

2010-07-13 Thread Richard Mann
There are 6695 landuse=grass in the UK. They're not turf farms. surface=grass is for highways On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:28 AM, 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

Re: [Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

2010-07-13 Thread Richard Mann
surface=grass 3263 occurrences, 3121 with a highway tag in the UK Feel free to use surface=grass for landcover if you want to. But people are more likely to use your data if you use landuse=grass. Richard On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:38 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 July

Re: [Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

2010-07-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 July 2010 21:49, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com wrote: surface=grass 3263 occurrences, 3121 with a highway tag in the UK Feel free to use surface=grass for landcover if you want to. But people are more likely to use your data if you use landuse=grass. Should we also

Re: [Tagging] Greenery adjacent to roads

2010-07-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:37 AM, 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