On Friday, 24 May 2019, SK53 wrote: > As a walker I appreciate walking through a real hay meadow full of > attractive flowers rather than a sterile green desert of rye grass.
And as a walker a real meadow is a very nice place to sit down and enjoy a relaxing lunch or coffee break. Phil (trigpoint) > Dudley Ibbett made this point long ago about the Peak District. The > difference is roughly equivalent to walking through a dark lifeless spruce > plantation and an ancient oak wood. > > As a naturalist these precious remnants are pretty much the only places > where many flowers, insects and birds are likely to be seen. > > Jerry > > On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 11:59, Edward Catmur via Talk-GB < > talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > As a walker, the most important distinction in agricultural land (not > > including orchards) is whether it is tilled or otherwise reduced to bare > > earth, or whether grass is allowed to establish permanent root systems. How > > long or varied the grass is allowed to get really doesn't concern me, > > especially as that can change in a matter of months after a wet spring or > > an enthusiastic flock of sheep have been through. The exact terminology > > used doesn't really concern me, but where I grew up "meadow" was the > > colloquial term for pasture, even close cropped grass. > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:07 AM Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 24/05/2019 10:43, Gregory Marler wrote: > >> > What is going on with landuse=farmland, and what are we going to do? > >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarmland > >> > > >> With regard to tagging, I agree with a lot of what you say there, but I > >> suspect that the first thing to do is to talk to the wiki editor about > >> it. It may be that they thought that they were just changing the wiki > >> in line with actual usage, it may be that they've actually discussed it > >> with lots of other people elsewhere first (just not visible at first > >> glance to me). > >> > >> For international tagging discussions the tagging list is probably the > >> best* mailing list, but it's probably worth also mentioning on the wiki > >> talk page for the tag too (and maybe the talk page for the wiki editor). > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> > >> Andy > >> > >> * or maybe "least worst" - there's a discussion there about how terrible > >> mailing list discussions are compared to controlled spaces on the > >> tagging list at the moment - but that's more to do with what happens > >> when people who don't agree (and don't even agree how to talk about > >> things) encounter people who don't agree with each other. > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-GB mailing list > >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
