Talk:Tag:landuse=flowerbed
Subset of a garden
Aren't flowerbeds a subset of a garden? See the tag leisure=garden. Also, while I can see land being farmed for flowers as a distinct cropping activity, I don't see flowerbeds as a distinct landuse, or being different or separate from other forms of agriculture or farming. The flowers are simply a specific agricultural crop of that farmland. Similarly, flowerbeds that beautify a roadside, central traffic island or road reservation are not a separate landuse from the land that the roadway lies upon, rather these planted areas are part of the highway infrastructure and may even have specific functions such as noise reduction and act as safety features like crash barriers and vehicle arrestors. While I can see there is probably a need for a tag for this sort of feature, I don't think a landuse=* tag is the best one to use. - Huttite (talk) 01:59, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
- I share the feeling that landuse is not a satisfying key choice for flowerbeds. However, it's only a subset of gardens in the sense that flowerbeds are contained within some gardens, i.e. a garden may contain one or more flowerbeds – but flowerbeds are not a type of garden. So while flowerbeds will sometimes be surrounded by a larger leisure=garden area, they should not itself be tagged leisure=garden in my opinion. --Tordanik 18:20, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Not a land USE
The land is not used by or for the flowers ... at best this is a land COVER. Warin61 (talk) 00:15, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- The land is not being used for any other purpose than growing flowers, generally for the purpose of decoration, no? While the flowerbed might be located in a car parking lot, or in a park, or in a University, the few square meters used for flowers are not available for other activities or uses. --Jeisenbe (talk) 07:49, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Editing description
Currently the description=* says "A public area (usually with municipal operator) designated for flowers".
While it appears that most uses of the tag are for public flowerbeds in parks, wouldn't it be acceptable to use this tag for semi-private flower beds in private hospitals, universities, hotels, schools, churches or other such facilities? Also, I think the "municipial operator" part is not really necessary and could be removed. --Jeisenbe (talk) 08:03, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
- Done Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 23:38, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Test of Time
Out of curiosity, I did download the flowerbed mappings in the area of my local interest into the editor. 12 areas in 12.640 km². Looking at the result, the 12 areas combined cover less than a soccer field. Moreover, from the aerial I mostly saw grass stained with bushes (in the center of roundabouts e.g.) This tag seems to compete with "natural=shrubbery". Maybe though, at the time of the mapping, there were actually flowers there, merely out of the whim of someone in charge, the gardening department of the municipality swapped them for ground-cover scrubs?
The fine article should clearly spell out: Areas that are in long-time-use as flowerbeds. Otherwise, the information recorded may out-date too quickly.--Hungerburg (talk) 02:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
I've seen a lot of small garden areas that are obviously designed decorative but with low maintenance in mind. You mentioned area in roundabout, and similar places. I found a garden:type=scree as best fit for these. Hasienda (talk) 19:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)