Tag:leisure=garden

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Description
A place where flowers and other plants are grown in a decorative and structured manner or for scientific purposes. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Rendering in OSM Carto
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Group: leisure
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
See also
Status: de facto

A garden is a distinguishable planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants. See garden on Wikipedia

Description

A garden can have aesthetic, functional, and recreational uses:

  • Cooperation with nature
  • Observation of nature
  • Relaxation
  • Growing useful produce

The most common form is known as a residential garden and is generally found in proximity to a residence, such as the front or back garden. The front garden may be a formal and semi-public space and so subject to the constraints of convention and law. While typically found in the yard of the residence, a garden may also be established on a roof, in an atrium, on a balcony, in windowboxes, or on a patio.

Residential gardens are typically designed at human scale, as they are most often intended for private use. However, the garden of a great house, castle or a large estate may be larger than a public park in a village, and may produce foodstuffs as well.

A garden can also be a part of a park and might be for example fenced or distinguishable by its vegetation.

Tagging

A single garden should be indicated by a single node node or area area. Areas should not include features (for example residential houses) which are not part of the garden itself.

Tagging scheme for leisure=garden
Tag Notes
name=* Name of the garden
garden:type=* Type of the garden. e.g. residential, community, botanical, see taginfo
garden:style=* Style of the garden, e.g. kitchen, rosarium, french, english, see taginfo
access=* Access tags to describe the allowed or preferred level of access.

Rendering

The default rendering stylesheet, Carto, makes no distinction regarding type, style or access properties.

See also

  • leisure=park - park, usually urban (municipal)
  • landuse=allotments - allotment gardens with multiple land parcels assigned to individuals or families for gardening
  • shop=garden_centre - a shop selling potted flowers, and sometimes even trees (for a garden centre with plant nursery)
  • landuse=plant_nursery - a plant nursery, which grows live plants for sale
  • landuse=flowerbed - public area where flowers are planted.
  • landuse=farmland - an area of agricultural fields used for tillage (cereals, vegetables, oil plants and other annual food crops)
  • man_made=bioswale - a rain garden near a residential street used for bio-retention of rainwater and storm-water management

Some "gardens" may be tagged as leisure=park (while preserving "garden" part in name=*) with multiple flowerbeds (micromapping). Term "garden" is limited to specific languages rather than objective criteria to distingush gardens from leisure=parks.)

Possible tagging mistakes

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Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

External links

  • Some languages will prefer Garden while others will prefer term Park for "recrational areas with flowerbeds, fountains"