Leaf type leafless

[GieskerB]

I have added an extra option for the leaf type quest in case the tree has no leafs.
I saw OSM has "leaf_type=leafless" and therefore I added an extra enum entry LEAFLESS(somValue="leafless").
Alongside, I added 4 pictures from wikimedia for displaying.

Do I miss anything? It's my first contribution to Streetcomplete.

[linfindel]

Is there potential for confusion with deciduous trees in winter? Maybe the label "Permanently leafless" or "Leafless all year round" would be clearer?

[GieskerB]

“leafless” is the tag from OSM, I think I can't change that, but i can change the display name of the option in the app, if that is what you mean.

[westnordost]

A leafless tree? What is that?

[HolgerJeromin]

A leafless tree? What is that?

According to the wiki a cactus
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leaf_type%3Dleafless
But according to this PR image a dead tree.
This discrepance needs to be fixed.

[GieskerB]

According to the wiki a cactus
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leaf_type%3Dleafless

That’s completely right, my bad.
Fixed it!

[westnordost]

Where did you come across a cactus? El 19 de abril de 2026 11:40:47 CEST, Bjarne Giesker ***@***.***> escribió:

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[GieskerB]

It actually was a dead tree. That's why I added the dead tree option now. But hey! If you come across one you can now simply add it through SC - assuming my pull request gets through :)

[westnordost]

I posed these questions because I was trying to find out your use case.

So your use case was that you stumbled upon a dead tree and therefore the question about which leaf type this tree had was mu / not applicable. The intended answer the user should give in such a case is to leave a note ( Uh… → Can't Say → Leave Note) and explain why. In this case, write something like "Der Baum ist tot (hat also keine Blätter)".

There are innumerable reasons why a quest(ion) may not be answerable. We only include (in the menu opened by the Uh... button) somewhat common cases which otherwise would lead to a flood of notes.
I don't see this being the case for neither dead trees nor trees erroneously tagged as cacti.

So, I am closing this as will not fix. You should just leave a note in cases where the question is not applicable to the real-world situation.

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Regarding the technical side of your PR, just for your information, it looks good:

You created the image correctly, you provided the attribution, didn't choose an excessive JPEG quality and added code to the correct places.
If this PR was eligible to be merged, there are trhee things I would find fault with, however:

1. The source strings.xml is the one in commonMain/composeResources/values/. All strings should be added there. There is a gradle task that copies this strings.xml to the other places (androidMain/res/…, commonMain/composeResources/values-en/…, etc.). Also, strings provided in other languages will always be overwritten by imports from PoEditor. ("tot" als adjektiv schreibt man übrigens mit "t")

2. leaf_type=leafless is not applicable for natural=tree, because there are no trees that are leafless. Cacti are not trees. As far as I can see, the mentioned tag may be used with something like natural=scrub.

3. I don't know where denotation=dead comes from. It is not documented and it doesn't seem to make sense. denotation is used for... uh... denotation ("Bedeutung"). Whether or not a tree is dead or not doesn't change it's denotation as e.g. a landmark, or as a tree in an avenue ("Allee"), etc. At the moment, I don't know how a dead tree could be tagged.

[westnordost]

I added a comment to the discussion on how to tag dead trees, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:natural%3Dtree#Dead_tree , I think dead:natural=tree would be most logical.