On 10/01/2017 01:44, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 10/01/17 01:20, David Groom wrote:
...
Tag info shows 579 ways tagged with crop = beet, of these 572 are in
northern Italy added by 3 users, so its probably quite easy to ask
what exactly they meant by "beet" , and retag these existing ways if
they actually should be beetroot.
In the UK I could hazard a guess as to whether sugarbeet or something
else based on the proximity to one of British Sugar's plants such as
Newark or Peterborough, but in Northern Italy asking the mapper
definitely seems like a good idea.
In British (or, at least, English; I'm not familiar with Scottish or
Welsh) agricultural practice, "beet" alone is generally short for sugar
beet. Beetroot isn't normally abbreviated, not least because doing so
would risk confusion with sugar beet. Fodder beet (aka field beet) is
typically called mangelwurzel in England.
Another caveat in the UK - crops are often rotated (and planted based on
price expectation) so what is beet one year is barley the next, and
perhaps oil-seed rape after that. Essentially, where this variation
happens it'd be difficult to trust any "crop" tag over a year old.
I agree; I think labelling annual crops is probably rather pointless in
the UK. It's probably worth labelling perennials, such as orchard crops,
vineyards, grassland etc, as these typically remain the same over a
period of many years (centuries, even, in some cases). But there are
very few circumstances where the same annual crop will be grown
repeatedly in the same field. And keeping up to date with the changes is
too big an ask, really.
Mark
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