Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread ael
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:51:18PM +0100, Kevin Peat wrote: > >Anyway, I take it that no one is objecting to my changes and wanting to > >revert them? > > > >ael > > > > > >___ > >Talk-GB mailing list > >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread ael
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 06:04:32PM +0100, Elizabeth Oldham wrote: > On 25/09/17 17:13, ael wrote: > > > Well, surely this make the tag so general as to be pretty useless. The > > original meaning was pretty specific and useful. "Moor" or something > > equivalant is well understood (in the UK, at

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread SK53
I'm not really suggesting replacing the tag, I just want to make it easier to find lowland heath. For now these 2 pages by Alan Silverside (Uni of West Scotland) provide lots of good illustrations (names are still botanical though): - Heathland 1:

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread Elizabeth Oldham
On 25/09/17 17:13, ael wrote: Well, surely this make the tag so general as to be pretty useless. The original meaning was pretty specific and useful. "Moor" or something equivalant is well understood (in the UK, at least) and is useful as a broad description where detailed mapping is absent.

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread Kevin Peat
On 25 September 2017 17:13:01 BST, ael wrote: >On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:36:22PM +0100, SK53 wrote: >> Moor (or possibly fell) covers a decent amount of Corine data >imported >> across Europe as natural=heath. In effect natural=heath on OSM no >longer >> means heath.

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread ael
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:36:22PM +0100, SK53 wrote: > Moor (or possibly fell) covers a decent amount of Corine data imported > across Europe as natural=heath. In effect natural=heath on OSM no longer > means heath. It may mean any of the following: > >- Upland vegetation in its broadest

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread Andy Townsend
On 25/09/2017 13:36, SK53 wrote: When this thread first started I thought we could work to remove these multiple meanings, but having seen what places with natural=heath from Corine imported-data in the Cevennes,  suspect that this is an unrealistic objective. Well just because one bad

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread SK53
Moor (or possibly fell) covers a decent amount of Corine data imported across Europe as natural=heath. In effect natural=heath on OSM no longer means heath. It may mean any of the following: - Upland vegetation in its broadest sense: unimproved upland grassland, drier blanket bogs (covered

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread Colin Spiller
Sounds sensible to me but I'm no expert. We have lots of moor here in Yorkshire Colin ⁣Sent from TypeApp ​ On 25 Sep 2017, 12:31, at 12:31, ael wrote: >On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:10:07AM +, SK53 wrote: >> than anything they reflect that OSM as a project lacks good

Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

2017-09-25 Thread ael
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:10:07AM +, SK53 wrote: > than anything they reflect that OSM as a project lacks good tags for many > of these boreo-temperate upland features, and whilst that is true there I have been changing some "heath" areas of Dartmoor to "moor". But I notice that the wiki