New preset: landuse=village_green

[maro-21]

It has been used 96,601 times and is rendered on the standard map:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dvillage_green

[matkoniecz]

Note that translating/describing it is quite hard - it is often misused (up to and including "any greenery" or "strip of grass between carriageways").

[Elefant-aus-Wuppertal]

I think it would be hard to explain in the preset's name good enough for what it should be used. When adding a preset for it, I would not know how to make sure that the misuse of this tag wouldn't increase. Of course a preset is not claimable for it, but maybe it will "push" this tag again. I believe many of the actual usages would even more fit into just landuse=grass and not the original meaning of "village_green".

[quincylvania]

I'm also hesitant to support this tag worldwide, despite its large usage. iD mappers already have to distinguish between Common, Park, Recreation Ground, Grass, Grassland, Sport Pitch, Garden, and various other similar presets. A Village Green may be a well-defined thing to some people, but I'm not sure it translates easily across cultures and to all of iD's languages.

[matkoniecz]

See #1581 (review)

As the others have already mentioned, this tag is a bit problematic: It appears to be something that's specific to certain countries (at least according to how the wiki describes it). Also, it was at least in the past misused to tag regular urban green spaces (probably as part of mapping-for-the-renderer?). Lastly, the tag's usage is stagnating in the past couple of years (see taginfo).

I think this tag should be discussed with the broader OSM community. @samjcorbin: would you like to lead this discussion (for example in the community forum on https://community.osm.org)? 1

Footnotes

1. This PR will be considered stale/abandoned if the discussion has not been started within the next 3 months. [↩](#user-content-fnref-1-db8ab26958b393b28853a154853040d6)

I think that if that PR will be closed due to being stale/abandoned the same should happen with this issue, unless someone would start such discussion

[maro-21]

I've changed my mind and I don't want this preset.

In addition, the lack of support.