Tag:landuse=orchard

+/- landuse=orchard Description Used to mark intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production Used on these elements Useful combination trees=* produce=* Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list) Status Approved

Contents 1 Use 1.1 General Use 1.2 List of trees and berry shrubs 1.3 Special Uses 1.4 Rejected Uses 2 Tagging 2.1 Main tag 2.2 Secondary tags 2.3 Other tags 3 Rendering 3.1 Main Pattern 3.2 Specific Patterns 3.3 Suggestions for creating a new pattern 4 Notes 5 References

Use

General Use

An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit or nut-producing trees grown for commercial production. ^[1]

The tag can also apply to a fruit garden, generally synonymous with an orchard, although it is set on a smaller non-commercial scale and may emphasize berry shrubs in preference to fruit trees."

The tag cannot be used for a garden producing vegetables under some fruit trees when the vegetable production is the main use and the trees are too scarce.

The soil of an orchard can be covered with grass or be naked, but generally worked yearly. The production is gathered.

List of trees and berry shrubs

Bellow is a list of some possible species ^[2]. You can enrich this list by adding local names of the trees. It would be helpfull for no/poor-English speaking mappers. Before adding a tree, you must propose it on the talk page. Note that the plural is used.

Tropical areas banana plants fr: bananiers - es: bananal cacao fr:cacaoyers coconut palms fr: cocotiers - es: cocotal coffea fr: caféiers - es: cafetal Durian Pineapple fr:ananas Sugar cane fr:canne à sucre Guava fr:goyaviers mango trees fr:manguiers Papaya pt: mamão - fr:papayers Rambutan tea plants fr: théiers

Subtropical areas avocado fr: avocatiers - es: aguacates Custard apple fr:corossolier date palms fr: palmiers datiers - es: palmeras datileras lemon trees fr: citronniers - es: limonar Lychee Mandarin fr:mandariniers olives (olive grove) fr: oliviers - es: olivar - pt: azeitona orange trees fr: orangers - es: naranjal - pt: laranja Macadamia

Temperate areas almond trees fr: amandiers - es: almendral apple trees de: Apfelbaum - es: manzanos - fr: pommiers - it: meli - pt: maçã apricot trees fr: abricotiers - es: albaricoques bayberry blackberry fr:mûriers blueberry cherry trees de: Kirschbaum - fr: cerisiers - es: cerezos - pt: cereja chestnut trees es: castaños - fr:châtaigniers cranberry Ginkgo Governor's plum hazels de: Haselnuss - fr: noisetiers - es: avellanos peach trees fr: pêchers - es: melocotoneros pear trees fr: poiriers - es: perales Pecan Persimmon tree plum tree fr: pruniers - es: ciruelos - pt: ameixa Raspberry es: frambueseros Sand pear walnut trees fr: noyers - es: nogales

Special Uses

As exceptions, some tree plantations can be tagged as orchard in OSM, although they don't produce fruit nor nut : tree plantations of oaks for truffles or cork are examples of such specific uses.

The case of willow plantation for wicker is not fixed. We need more information on cultivation practice. Cultural practices are closed the previous cases. The question is about the gather. Is the whole plant cut or only part (branches) ?

The use of the second level tag produce=* is recommended.

Special species list

• oaks for truffles
• oaks for cork

Rejected Uses

• A Tree nursery could not be mapped using this tag..

• The tag cannot be used for a forest with predominance of producing trees ^[3]. Such forest could be tagged using landuse=forest + wood=coniferous/deciduous/mixed/shrubs + someting saying the production (e.g. produce=*).

Tagging

Main tag

• landuse=orchard

Secondary tags

• trees=*, optional

As we are mapping what is on the ground, the value should be the name of the trees and not of the production. E.g.

• landuse=orchard + trees=apple_trees
• landuse=orchard + trees=cherry_trees
• landuse=orchard + trees=pear_trees
• landuse=orchard + trees=*berry_plants
• ...
• landuse=orchard + trees=nursery for a nursery.

• produce=*, optional

In addition of the trees tag, when the name of the tree is not enough :

• produce=latex with trees=rubber trees
• produce=truffles with trees=oaks
• produce=cork with trees=oaks
• ...

Other tags

• fruit=*, optional

fruit is a simple tag for the species produced within this orchard. This is a private suggestion by me, added on Oct 25, and not covered by the voting below, but it sounds logical and I wish that some renderers include it into their mapping procedure. --FK270673 14:42, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Should be produce=* FrViPofm 14:16, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

• landuse=orchard + fruit=apple

Rendering

Main Pattern

• A renderer could render the area with green dots on brown background.

Specific Patterns

• More accurate renderers could render, according to what they implement, green symbols on brown background. E.g.
  • Apple trees
  • Cherry trees
  • Hazels
  • Orange trees

Suggestions for creating a new pattern

• All the patterns are 24x24 px
• The background color is of landuse=field : #E6DDD0
• The leaves color is of landuse=forest : #B1CB9D
• The fruit shape is about 9 px diameter centered : once at 6px,6px, once at 18px, 18px (top-left : 0px, 0px)

Notes

• see Proposed features/orchard for the approval.

References

1. ↑ based on en.wikipedia orchard
2. ↑ Sources : en.wikipedia Orchard, fr.wikipedia Verger
3. ↑ e.g. Maple for syrup in Canada, Maritime Pine for turpentine in France