User:SK53/Garden

See my blog post about mapping botanical gardens for some context: http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-quartet-of-botanical-gardens.html.

Suggest use of a new key garden=* or garden_feature=*. There is likely to be some overlap with types of gardens, see garden:type=*. The idea is that these can be used to provide detail of larger gardens or map isolated garden features in the broader environment.

Suggested values (note the use of a key garden is only for illustrative purposes see above:

• garden=lawn. Default surface is grass, but some other plants have been used for lawns (e.g., Camomile). See also landuse=grass for which this would either be an alternative or a refinement tag.
• garden=flower_bed. Should be a replacement for landuse=flower_bed. May needs some kind of sub/adjectival tagging especially for botanical gardens (order beds, systematic beds, Dahlia beds, ...).
• garden=herbaceous_border
• garden=pergola. Example Laburnum walk at Bodnant.
• garden=rockery
• garden=raised_bed
• garden=vegetable_bed. Unlikely in botanical gardens, but not uncommon in large private gardens or garden research establishments.
• garden=flower_meadow. Inclusive of many brightly-coloured flower mixes and true meadow environments.
• garden=arboretum. Only used in the context of a larger garden or feature (for instance many forests have arboreta which would not make sense to map as gardens (e.g., the Whitty Pear, Wyre Forest; N. Wales).
• garden=shrubbery. Monty Python jokes here.
• garden=compost_heap. Often rather large in big gardens
• garden=cold_frame.
• garden=rose_garden. Example Hampton Court.
• garden=kitchen_garden. Only as feature of larger garden (for instance large country houses}}.
• garden=herb_garden. As above (& some overlap).

Features without a suggested value:

• Plantings of particular (e.g, all of one genus) trees/shrubs. A good example is Tallinn Botanical Garden. Mainly because I don't have a good single term for these areas.
• Work areas of larger gardens, with beds & greenhouses for raising plants; equipment storage etc.
• Woodland walks: encompassing the area of featured planting, paths & trees. Good example Winter Walk, Anglesey Abbey.
• Wetland features other than ponds/lakes. Notionally can use natural=wetland, but some further distinction may be needed separate from wetland=*.

Other features

Things where existing tags do the main work.

• Hothouses and other glasshouses. Note it may be desirable to use a garden tag to describe the purpose of the glasshouse: tropical, temperate, cold etc.
• Water features natural=water etc.
• paths: highway=footway etc
• Hedges
• Orchard and Wooded areas
• Ornamental features: statues, fountains.
• Practical amenities for visitors: benches, shelters
• Other Buildings
• Walled gardens by mapping the wall.
• Avenues of trees (tree rows)
• Specimen trees natural=tree, shrubs natural=shrub, and herbaceous perennial plants natural=plant. Tagging both latter categories should be done conservatively, and usually when the garden is particularly known for the relevant plants.

Additional relevant tags

• taxon=* for any part of a garden dedicated to a particular systematically recognised plants.
• ref=* when garden areas are referenced on plans, maps and on the ground (e.g., Tallinn).
• operator=*: some features in larger gardens may be maintained by a special interest group. For instance the Walled Garden at Wollaton Park is run by the Nottingham Branch of the Hardy Plant Society; the Dahlia beds in Riga are run by the local Dahlia enthusiasts.
• access=*. Mainly relates to staff only areas of gardens separate from general access to the leisure=garden