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I'm getting conflicting messages regarding tagging fairways and greens. I had been using landuse=grass but was told it should be landuse=golf only to be picked on on that. I can't find any help in the Wiki. All advice appreciated. |
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Thanks all for your contributions. This is certainly a thorny subject! I'm interested in OSM for use with the Golf Club games in conjunction with LIDAR data. I just wanted to do the right thing by other users. However, as a relatively inexperienced user, it occurs to me that the term "landuse" should refer to the actual use of the area (in this case, obviously, golf) and that the surface tag is the one to use to indicate the physical covering of that area. Perhaps "golf" should be available in the landuse drop-down. 1
You wouldn't be unique in thinking that "the landuse tag should mean the actual use of the land"; that point occasionally gets argued on the tagging mailing list. People have suggested "landcover" in place of what landuse is often used for in OSM, but that is, I think, a minority view. Lots of tags don't quite mean the same in OSM as in the outside world, often confused by English words meaning different things in different dialects of English, so to an extent we need to live with that.
(20 Nov '21, 17:49)
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The iD editor presets for fairways & greens comes with landuse=grass. This is believed by some, including me, to be incorrect tagging ("tagging for the renderer"). The history if long and complicated. Golf features have only recently been rendered on the main CartoCSS map, and people have used various subterfuges to make the mapped features appear: these include: In practice the individual The use of these tags on Ultimately it is a matter of choice as to whether one ignores the message in iD, but be aware that others might not, and 'correct' your original decision. |
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Hi kaptinkenny14 - what to use for grass on golf courses is a bit of an open issue; there are at least two approaches. I'm assuming here that in OSM you're this user; apologies if I've got that wrong. The editor that you're using (iD) does indeed suggest "landuse=grass" for a golf fairway as your screenshot shows. Some people think that is incorrect, and have raised that with the iD editor here, and here. Discussion on the first of those explains a bit about why the wiki page here says things like "Do not use the tag landuse=grass" on fairways. The comments that you have received here** are from one person who seems to be on a singular crusade in GB to rid GB courses of "landuse=grass" for fairways. For completeness, I'm from OSM's Data Working Group, and we got drawn into golf tagging because a couple of people editing golf courses in OSM complained about "automatic edits" to their previous tagging and the rudeness of some of the comments they'd received. Editor maintainers always need to treat the wiki with care as some of the things that it says are self-contradictory. That said, there have been times where popular editors push forms of tagging that are very much in the minority in OSM. I don't have a personal view about which tagging is correct here, beyond "both are, because both are widely accepted". iD has a new maintainer and I'm sure that issues such as this are among the ones that they will look at. Regards, Andy ** and somewhat confusing, containing as they do "The landuse of golf features is 'golf' not grass." and "landuse=golf is not a valid tag". |
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Hi kaplinkenny14, have a look here, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=golf_course 3
As with many OpenStreetMap tagging issues, there is a long history behind this and it´s quite difficult to work out what the best up-to-date approach is. See for example: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/8748 https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues/203 and "Rendering of fairways" on the Discussion page of the page already mentioned: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:leisure%3Dgolf_course#Rendering_of_fairway
(20 Nov '21, 11:59)
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Thanks Hendrikklaas. I have seen that but it doesn't address the landuse issue. The screenshot is from a very short while ago. Should I just accept the suggestion?