Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread Petr Morávek [Xificurk]
Roy Wallace napsal(a): On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:20 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: leisure=garden garden=residential Much better. This clearly means you are tagging a particular *type* of garden. I don't see in what sense is this better - your own remark 'someone lives in

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/14 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: And the added bonus of abusing leisure=garden tag... Let me one more time explain what I think is wrong on this tag, so here is an example: Step two: Which one of these lines better describes the area? A) Place where flowers and other

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread John F. Eldredge
call that a yard, not a garden. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited) From :mailto:xific...@gmail.com Date :Fri May 14 10:42:56 America/Chicago 2010 Roy Wallace napsal(a): On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:20 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/14 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: That's the part of copied text from wikipedia, that really significantly changed the meaning of leisure=garden page on OSM wiki. Take a look at the history, only few weeks ago the content said something completely different (although it was

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 May 2010 05:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I see what you mean (I was confused anyway because I remembered also a different content ;-) ). Still the old version is IMHO not useful either. On one hand it is an identical meaning to park. On the other decorative

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/14 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_garden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_garden I don't really see what the big deal is, leisure=garden can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, so it needs to be sub-tagged, +1

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 May 2010 06:05, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: garden=english_garden|french_garden|japanese_garden|water_garden|horticulture|lawn -1, this seems pretty inconsequential ;-). If you go for structuring garden tagging, you cannot mix landcover (lawn), typology (english /

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread Liz
On Sat, 15 May 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: what if someone decides not to cut his grass? It would IMHO still be a garden. My grass is rarely cut (climatic reasons) and we have left the main grassed area to become /meadow/. It's not a garden now in any English term, and is a /yard/.

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread Chris Hill
Liz wrote: On Sat, 15 May 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: what if someone decides not to cut his grass? It would IMHO still be a garden. My grass is rarely cut (climatic reasons) and we have left the main grassed area to become /meadow/. It's not a garden now in any English

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/14 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Sat, 15 May 2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: what if someone decides not to cut his grass? It would IMHO still be a  garden. My grass is rarely cut (climatic reasons) and we have left the main grassed area to become /meadow/. It's not a garden now in any

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread Liz
On Sat, 15 May 2010, Chris Hill wrote: You have animals grazing? Or perhaps you cut it for hay or silage? If not then it's just an unkempt garden, just letting the grass grow doesn't make it a meadow, except perhaps in pretentious gardening programmes :) I guess you assumed I lived in a

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 May 2010 07:04, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I guess you assumed I lived in a city area. I don't. So if you leave your garden alone it reverts to meadow. I am no longer supporting a plant monoculture but a variety of plants which vary with the seasons. 10 years of drought give a low

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread John Smith
2010/5/15 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: That's the thing, I'm not convinced that a lawn should be tagged as leisure=garden just because it's behind a fence around a family house. To me it isn't the lawn that makes the garden, but the fact that the garden can be viewed as a

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/15 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: but before neither ;-) I disagree, it was pretty simple to ask myself if the area is Place where flowers and other plants are grown in a decorative and structured manner or for scientific purposes. - Botanical garden - yes, Japanese

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 May 2010 11:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: and other plants grown in a decorative and structured way, but not if they were growing herbs or vegetables (but yes again if they were growing stuff with scientific interest),... ;-) Market gardens grow vegtables in a

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-14 Thread Liz
On Sat, 15 May 2010, Chris Hill wrote: No I didn't assume anything, except that what you have is land attached to a house. That is a garden. Green or not, maintained or not. Decked, paved or grassed, cultivated or not. A meadow is agricultural land. still wrong, the area under discussion

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-13 Thread John Smith
2010/5/13 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: By themselves not, but they are within the residential land and this tagging proposal follows the scheme like highway=service + service=whatever. I admit, it's not the best solution, but it is already a proposed scheme. I don't have a

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-13 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:20 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: leisure=garden garden=residential Much better. This clearly means you are tagging a particular *type* of garden. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-11 Thread Petr Morávek [Xificurk]
Roy Wallace napsal(a): 2010/5/10 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com Until there is a better solution I'll use the proposed scheme of landuse='residential' + residential='garden'. FWIW, I don't like that. Look at residential=garden...someone lives in the garden? Well, yes :) You

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-11 Thread Tobias Knerr
Petr Morávek [Xificurk] wrote: But after a while of searching the wiki, I found something reasonable... Until there is a better solution I'll use the proposed scheme of landuse='residential' + residential='garden'. Landuses are a relatively large-scale, abstract classification. A typical

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-10 Thread Petr Morávek [Xificurk]
I really really don't think it is a good idea to degrade the leisure='garden' tag to mark everything from a castle garden, dendrological garden (with or without public access), or e.g. small Japanese garden belonging to a tea-house, to the extreme case of plain cut grass in some backyard. Such a

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-10 Thread Roy Wallace
2010/5/10 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com Until there is a better solution I'll use the proposed scheme of landuse='residential' + residential='garden'. FWIW, I don't like that. Look at residential=garden...someone lives in the garden?

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-10 Thread Bill Ricker
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:48 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Please don't confuse land use, what the land is used for, and land cover, what is the upper most covering on the ground... Good point. landuse=forest (or tree_farm if locally defined?) is true even for the week (or

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-07 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote: That is what I like about it - when all I can find out about an area is that is green and lies in between buildings, yard is an appropriately vague

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-07 Thread Petr Morávek [Xificurk]
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer napsal(a): 2010/5/6 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: To the proposed solutions in this thread: * highway=pedestrian, area=yes - It doesn't really make sense to me to tag private fenced and _green_ areas by highway tag. sure, for green areas it isn't, for

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/7 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: * surface=grass, surface=lawn, surface=whatever - I don't like this because what I really want to map is not that my neighbour has a lawn behind his house, but the fact that there is a private green property add access=private? You

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/6 Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com: landuse=lawn (For smaller areas of kept grass that are either inaccessible or not meant to - you know - picnic on or similar). landuse=yard (For private backyards etc, usually inaccessible, even if they may look park-like on the satellite). For the

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread Craig Wallace
On 06/05/2010 13:49, Jonas Minnberg wrote: Ok so I keep running into these; green areas visible on satellite imagery that are tagged as parks but aren't really. My first instinct was to remove them, but that was mostly met with skepticism and alternative tag suggestions. So I am thinking of

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread Chris Hill
Jonas Minnberg wrote: [snip] landuse=yard (For private backyards etc, usually inaccessible, even if they may look park-like on the satellite). In the UK we would sometimes call a backyard a garden. leisure=garden already exists. Cheers, Chris

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread Cartinus
On Thursday 06 May 2010 15:06:36 Jonas Minnberg wrote: for the latter highway=pedestrian, area=yes. For accessibility use the access-tags, e.g. in your examples access=no and access=private. This would really confuse I think. This is not confusing, it is simply wrong. Nobody in his right

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 May 2010 22:49, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote: landuse=lawn (For smaller areas of kept grass that are either inaccessible or not meant to - you know - picnic on or similar). landuse=yard (For private backyards etc, usually inaccessible, even if they may look park-like on the

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/6 Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl: On Thursday 06 May 2010 15:06:36 Jonas Minnberg wrote: for the latter highway=pedestrian, area=yes. For accessibility use the access-tags, e.g. in your examples access=no and access=private. This would really confuse I think. This is not confusing,

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread Jonas Minnberg
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: I think yard is a rather vague word, as it could also be a farmyard, industrial yard, courtyard, shipyard etc. That is what I like about it - when all I can find out about an area is that is green and lies in between

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/6 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: To the proposed solutions in this thread: * highway=pedestrian, area=yes - It doesn't really make sense to me to tag private fenced and _green_ areas by highway tag. sure, for green areas it isn't, for paved ones it IMO is. *

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 May 2010 06:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: and maybe also subtags for the use: a) flower garden b) fruit and vegetable / kitchen garden (what tag could suit this? type?) garden=horticulture ? horticulture=flowers|vegetables|fruit Although then you get into all

Re: [Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

2010-05-06 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote: That is what I like about it - when all I can find out about an area is that is green and lies in between buildings, yard is an appropriately vague word. You say you only know two things: 1) it is green -- color=green