Thank you for the link to landuse=flowerbed. That tag seems to have some acceptance in a variety of countries, and works quite well for areas of flowering plants.
However, we still may need a way to tag ornamental plants that do not produce significant flowers, for example, succulents and plants with ornamental leaves but no flowers. I would not call a decorative bed of cacti a "flowerbed", but perhaps this is an American distinction? For an area of ornamental perennial woody plants like bushes, shrubs and similar, would the whole area be a "shrubbery" or a "hedge" or something else in British English? What about an area with short, non-woody plants used as groundcover, but which are not grasses nor similar-looking plants? Could landuse=grass still be used, or should this only be used for actual lawns? Do we need a tag for a bed of ornamental herbs which are neither flowers nor grasses, e.g. ferns, decorative coleus, Canna, Caladiums? Examples: https://www.thespruce.com/top-foliage-plants-4021628 - Joseph Eisenberg On 2/9/20, Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > If talking about them, or trying to describe them to somebody, I would call > all of those examples either garden beds or flower beds. > > When I've mapped similar beds as part of a park, I've gone with > leisure=garden > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=garden?uselang=en-AU > working > on this "A garden can also be a part of a park and might be for example > fenced or distinguishable by its vegetation." > > On that page, though, I just noticed a fairly recent amendment to include > reference to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dflowerbed - > used ~4000 times so possibly worth paying attention to! > > & also the undocumented man_made=flowerbed, which is also used 311 times. > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
