On 7/15/08, Dermot McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That looks perfect. In practice, you'll probably find it difficult to > map a bog as a whole, rather it's the big empty brown bit that you'll > generally end up mapping.
Agreed. > It certainly is. In traditional use, cuboid sections of peat/turf > would be extracted from the bog and left in the open air to dry. These > were of a shape and size useful for a domestic fire. On the > mass-market these days you generally get peat briquettes, which are > made of milled peat, extracted mechanically from the exposed surface > of the bog. This is then compressed into briquettes. And it smells lovely, doesn't it Ivan, not at all like wood ;) Also, for those who travelled from Limerick to Dublin by road and rail would have passed through a large expanse of bog. (raised peat bog, I think) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
