Hey folks, first of all thanks for your replies.
I really want to establish a new tag for fieldborders. I would suggest landuse=fieldmargin. Most of times they are managed so the landuse key would be the best choice. There should also be a way to describe the type of fieldmargin (e. g. scrubs, trees,..). I found different ways to do that. I visualized it here for some examples: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/b/b4/Fieldmargins.png - First of all I described the current way to tag fieldmargins. - Option 1 uses the same tags as currently used but adds an additional landuse=fieldmargin (less inversive). - Option 2 uses the landuse=fieldmargin tag and uses the landcover tag if possible otherwise the current used tag (see image to understand ;) ). - Option 3 (my preferred) uses landuse=fieldmargin and a new key named margin to specify the type of fieldmargin (e.g. fieldmargin=trees). I prefer Option 3 because all types of fieldmargins a described with the same key therefore they easily can be combined (if the fieldmargin is grown by different types, e.g. fieldmargin=trees;bank. Furthermore it prevents of a wrong usage of other keys (e.g. a wall is not a barrier in case of a fieldmargin). What do you think about theses options? Are you interested in creating a feature request? Please let me know. Greetings Simon/descilla 2014-06-15 15:44 GMT+02:00 fly <lowfligh...@googlemail.com>: > Hey list > > Am 14.06.2014 09:01, schrieb Dudley Ibbett: > > In the UK what you describe sounds like a “field margin”. > > > > Here is an example web page, but search on google under “field > > margins” > > for more information. > > > > http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/habitats/arable-field-margins > > > > Farmers generally cultivate up to the field boundaries in the UK but > > there have been schemes to encourage them to leave “field margins” to > > support wildlife. > > Think we first have to get the tagging of landuse in general more > consistent. In my region I still find it connected with highways. One > user even did start to tag landuse as multipolygon-relations using the > highways and therefor did split the highways in lots of short parts. > > As landcover=* is not rendered nor supported by many software, people > use landuse=grass or even natural=grassland for small stripes of grass > next to the road. > > The major question we have to solve is where does landuse end. > * we do not have a tag for landuse=highway/road. Where does the highway > end ? > * where does landuse=farmland end ? In my opinion the field margin is > still part of the farmland > * how to handle tracks between fields ? There are some tracks which move > from year to year > > All together I think the field margin can be tagged already using > landcover=*, but if you want to tag it explicit you could think about a > complete new tag like field_margin=yes or farmland=field_margin. > > Just my two cents > > fly > > > Am 13.06.2014 14:35, schrieb Simone Saviolo: > >> 2014-06-13 14:15 GMT+02:00 Simon Wüllhorst <m...@simon-wuellhorst.de > >> > >> currently I’m tagging the country around my place (farmland, > >> farmyards, meadow and so on). Farmlands are typically surrounded > >> or seperated by small areas/borders of several vegetations (trees > >> bushes, at least in Germany), called Field Borders (or Feldrain > >> in German, more Informations: > http://extension.missouri.edu/p/g9421or > >> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldrain). They are important for > >> farmers (to improve crops growth) and they also useful for a > >> better orientation and navigation in this country. > >> > >> > >> I started a thread on forum.osm.org <http://forum.osm.org> (It’s > >> a german thread, so if you have questions, please ask me) to get > >> tips for the correct/ideal tagging of these areas > >> (important:it’s an area, not a way!). > >> > >> > >> In summary I got a lot of suggestions, for example natural=scrub > >> or natural=wood, …. > >> > >> > >> The problem of all these suggestions were, they all describe the > >> type of vegetation and not the purpose of these areas. Besides >> > the vegetation of these areas are much various, so you can’t > >> describe them by using one or two “vegetation”-tags. > >> > >> > >> According to the post of “dieterdreist” > >> (http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=422045#p422045) I > >> thought about to create/use a completely new tag/value. > >> > >> > >> At this point I’m not shure which key would be correct. I’m > >> thinking about natural=fieldborder or landuse=fieldborder. On > >> the one landuse=fieldborder seems to be the better choise, > >> because field > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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