Talk:Tag:landcover=greenery

"variety of plants"

What about case where it is just grass? Or single species of flower? For example, roundabout where central circle has red roses planted Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 10:57, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

simple ; landcover=grass or landcover=flowers (+ eventual, if someone want to go 'in detail' ; flowers=red roses or a 'combination' with genus and/or species or whatever) --Henke54 (talk) 13:48, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

The tag leisure=garden is defined as "A place where flowers and other plants are grown in a decorative and structured manner", and it's commonly used for small private gardens (eg. gardens in front of private houses in towns), so I don't see why it couldn't be used for an area of gardens in a roundabout. In fact, in Portland Oregon we have several very small rose gardens in 4 roundabouts in a neighborhood I know wll. I believe they are currently mapped as leisure=park, but leisure=garden might be better since they are mainly roses with a couple patches of grass between. While I mainly map larger features, I am not aware of any general rule that could determine a minimum size for a garden (or a park for that matter). --Jeisenbe (talk) 06:14, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Unless it's an unusual roundabout, these are probably flower beds, not gardens. Gardens tend to also contain flower beds, but they aren't themselves flower beds – it's a different level of abstraction. (Garden also often contain other objects like garden paths, possibly areas for seating or multi-purpose grass areas, possibly even structures like tool sheds etc.) In my opinion, the tag used for a flower bed in a roundabout should be the same we use for a single flower bed in a garden, not the tag we use for the garden as a whole. --Tordanik 17:01, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

In Portland the features I am referring to have paths and a couple benches, and are referred to as parks. There isn't a minimum size for a park. But it would be fine to create a new, specific tag for flower beds like leisure=flower_bed or natural=flowers. This would be clearer than using a value like "greenery", which could represent any type of vegetation. Greenery definition in Cambridge: "green plants or branches, especially when cut and used as decoration" (synonym: verdure); in Oxford: "Green foliage, growing plants, or vegetation. (Synonyms: foliage, vegetation, plants...)" --Jeisenbe (talk) 00:42, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Needs a definition and description, not just a big gallery of photos

Henke54, while it's somewhat helpful to have pictures, it would be good to link to the objects in OSM which these pictures represent. Also, usually a gallery of photos is at the end of a wiki page. It would be much more helpful to have a written description that explains why a user would use this new tag instead of one of the many other tags mentioned. --Jeisenbe (talk) 12:12, 23 August 2019 (UTC)