On 15/06/18 06:44, Nigel Stewart wrote:
... ANY THOUGHTS on this might well be very useful - ESPECIALLY as I hoping to create a "turn-key solution" so anyone can use the "How to co-create forest gardens for themselves".
Assuming you mean "How to map a forest garden in OpenStreetMap" rather than "actually planting things":
OpenStreetMap uses a series of keys and values so a garden might be tagged as "leisure=garden". OSM editors often hide these keys and values behind a series of presets, but the various OSM editors have ways of seeing the underlying tags as well (in the default web-based editor there's an "all tags" option that can be used to show them).
With anything a bit unusual I'd suggest looking to see what people might have done already. One way of doing that is "taginfo" https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/ - you can search for keys and values there. From there you can see "combinations" (other tags that people have used with "leisure=garden"), and get to the wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aleisure%3Dgarden where you can see the community documentation for that tag and value.
You may find that you're the first person to map the sort of thing that you're describing here, which means that you might need to invent some tag values to use. That's perfectly OK, but anything quite specialised probably won't get rendered by common OSM maps (though it's actually not that difficult to create your own map based on OSM data).
If you'd like to discuss the best tags to use the "tagging" list might be the place to start https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging . This list ("imports") won't be read by many people interested in discussing tagging, so you probably won't get many replies here. You could also try asking on IRC - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC . I mentioned your post to someone with a biological interest there and they mentioned https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SK53/Garden (a discussion page about how you might tag some things) - you may want to borrow some of the ideas there, or might feel that a different scheme would be better for you.
Anyway, hope this helps! Best Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
