At 01:53 PM 21/06/2009, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>Hello Mike,
>
>>I made one boo-boo:
>
>>natural=moor should be place=moor as it is really an administrative
>designation. The examples in the database are >place=moor.
>
>>Mike
>
>Isn't a moor a natural feature though, like a heath, etc?
That is what I thought when I started (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorland)
but it does not quite work when collecting local names as compared to
identifying natural habitat. My big thing is to collect all the often
wonderful local names into OSM to help preserve usage. I am easy though if
other folks differ.
When I started checking all the "moors" around where I grew up I found that
many look just like ordinary farmland and must have done so since about the
eighteenth century. The names in NPE appear to more accurately reflect
assigned areas for each parish to graze their sheep rather than moorland per
se. Rombalds Moor for example, is made up of Ilkley Moor, a little unusual in
being mostly for hunting rather than sheep farming, is definitely moorland, and
then Baildon Moor, Hawksworth Moor, Addingham Moor, Steeton Moor, ... some of
which are classic moorland and some grassy fields.
Also in the areas around Yorkshire cities, areas can often be semi-built up
but still keep the name such and such moor.
Mike
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