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 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?) > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging