On 25 September 2017 17:13:01 BST, ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com> 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. It may mean any of the following: >> >> - Upland vegetation in its broadest sense: unimproved upland >grassland, >> drier blanket bogs (covered by heather), Racometrium heath, >Bilberry >> dominated heath, Shrubby vegetation dominated by brooms (at least >in France >> & Spain), and no doubt a few others I've missed. >> - Moorland in Britain, which is probably a slightly smaller subset >of >> the above >> - Lowland heathland: places like the Surrey Heaths, Suffolk >Sandlings, >> Norfolk Brecks etc. >> - Other less obvious lowland areas known as heaths: particularly >with >> large swathes of bracken and patches of birch. >> >> 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, 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. > >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 >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
This was discussed in a thread here a number of years ago. There is a lot of upland heath on the moor: http://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/wildlife-and-heritage/habitats2/moorland/upland-heathland I think it would be better if it was kept as heath with a sub type. Just changing it to moor doesn't add anything useful. Kevin
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