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.
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@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
@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.
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
@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.
@SK53 @openstreetmap I am probably underestimating the effort of keeping the map up to date!
@ame @openstreetmap Everyone does. As a mapper it's important to work out what is feasible to keep up-to-date. By all means micromap all the detail for a small area to try it out : you soon learn what works personally.
#iNaturalist does provide for mapping cultivated plants, but those records don't get the same attention for verification as others. That is the approach I've used.