I imagine that
- people that use landuse=grass, landuse=forest/wood, natural=scrub since
it renders, would be willing to use landuse=[something appropriate],
landcover=grass|trees|scrub|... if it would render
- people that use landcover=... (and don't care about empty spots on the
map), would
From previous discussions on this topic I learned that there are
several groups with different ideas about the tagging (see the Dutch
forum, as well as in the archives of this mailing list, the help
website and the General-topic on the forum)
The groups I see
- people that use landuse=grass,
landuse=village_green is used a lot. That works fine for grass-covered
areas, because it's rendered green, but it misinterprets the term
village_green and we're still stuck with the scrub, forest, orchard and
hedge type greenery areas. The wiki for village_green says:
*This tag is very often not
