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Is there any documentation on mapping individual small plants like flowers or cacti? (breta.moe)

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@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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Individual trees are mapped using natural=tree, so I reckon a similar pattern could be followed for any plant. Checking taginfo, it looks like a very small number of mappers have used natural=plant, maybe that’s the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

@yo_scottie_oh you're right, thank you so much!
There's also this OSM wiki entry that I wasn't able to find before: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural=plant