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 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? > > No objection here. Descriptive word is moor, everyone and his dog recognises > it for what it is. The use of heath to describe moors is simply bizarre. > IMHO/YYMV.
That was exactly my feeling, but the link to http://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/wildlife-and-heritage/habitats2/moorland/upland-heathland given by Kevin suggests that perhaps some variety of heath is not too wrong after all. ael _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
