Mapping areas with many purposes (and green in towns)

General talk
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I’ve run into a problem with mapping some areas used by pedestrians and vehicles altogether. There are a few “types” of those areas:

  1. usually covered with gravel; unused most of the time - when used, being a market or a parking; pedestrians can walk on it
  2. usually covered with gravel; used as a maneouvering area for vehicles, usually near some industrial or commercial compound or garages

The closest I could find was “brownfield”, but the “scheduled for development” part doesn’t match. If anyone can point me to a name that’s listed in map features or is unlisted, but elegant, I’ll use it. Currently, I was using “parking” for the 1st and “highway”=“service” + “area”=“yes” for the second.

Another question is about small areas of half-cultivated grass, bushes and trees in towns. I couldn’t find anything matching it closely. It’s near “natural”=“scrub”, but it’s considered to be a park, being inside a town.

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Mmmh

  1. highway=pedestrian + area=yes + amenity=parking + surface=gravel
  2. highway=service + area=yes + surface=gravel
    ?
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Thanks. Being used to OSM, I frequently forget which values correspond to which tags (therefore didn’t think of “pedestrian + parking” thingy).
For the other one, I’ll be using natural=scrub or whatever they might be using mapping nearby towns.

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remember that simple tags can’t capure everything, sometimes you just have to write down in clear text what it is you are seeing.