@openstreetmap Is there any documentation on mapping individual small plants like flowers or cacti?
I’d like to start mapping botanical gardens but cannot find any information on this.

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    2 months ago

    @ame @openstreetmap Some thoights about mapping hotanical gardens from 13 years ago http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-quartet-of-botanical-gardens.html.

    I’d be cautious about mapping small plants such as herbs even in a botanical garden. Beds get swapped around for all sorts of reasons, but the actual dedicated bed tends to remain and I think that is the sensible base unit. There is a tag landuse=flowerbed for this, but I regard the use of the landuse key as unfortunate.

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      2 months ago

      @SK53 @openstreetmap

      Great info, thank you!

      Intuitively, if small flowers are mapped with images it seems easy enough to fix when changes are made.

      But I’m still quite far from that point, so let’s what I think when I get there haha

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        @ame @openstreetmap It’s quite hard to keep up with trees which may last longer than many buildings (went looking for one yesterday which has gone), but planting gets rearranged all the time in botanical gardens, especially those still used for teaching and research. Somewhere like Tartu would be an absolute nightmare both to map and maintain without that factor.