Re: [Tagging] natural=????

2013-09-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Wednesday 11 September 2013, Tod Fitch wrote: There are some grasses there but small woody plants predominate in that area. So that would indicate heath. But how does one note the difference, significant to a hiker, that you can easily walk through this area while the chaparral at lower

Re: [Tagging] natural=????

2013-09-11 Thread Tod Fitch
On Wed, September 11, 2013 10:17 am, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Wednesday 11 September 2013, Tod Fitch wrote: Drought winter in one area of interest: http://kirnim.smugmug.com/2013Adventures-2/Mt-Pinos-Feb-2013/i-cJXHsL S/0/M/P1110823-M.jpg Summer in another area:

Re: [Tagging] natural=????

2013-09-11 Thread John F. Eldredge
Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote: On Tue, September 10, 2013 2:16 pm, John Eldredge wrote: On 09/10/2013 04:06 PM, Dominik George wrote: Why? If there is a difference, then there is a difference. BTW, mind fix your From name, Mrs. or Mr. Gmail? -nik Gmail yve...@gmail.com

Re: [Tagging] natural=????

2013-09-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/9/11 Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de there is simply no way with the current OSM data model to properly map deserts. +1, generally we are not well prepared to map huge geographic areas or ecosystems. I fear that also tundras fall into this kind of (at least currently) unmappable

Re: [Tagging] natural=????

2013-09-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Wednesday 11 September 2013, Tod Fitch wrote: Drought winter in one area of interest: http://kirnim.smugmug.com/2013Adventures-2/Mt-Pinos-Feb-2013/i-cJXHsL S/0/M/P1110823-M.jpg Summer in another area: http://www.nordicbase.org/files/web_images/sawmill_mtn.jpg The problem here is that

Re: [Tagging] natural=????

2013-09-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/9/11 Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de This already goes in direction of scrub - in fact the distinction between scrub and heath is not well defined. wikipedia says scrubs can have trees up to 8m while heath they limit to 2, but actually they divide scrubs into 8 subtypes, two of

[Tagging] Mapping large areas (was natural=????)

2013-09-11 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/9/11 Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de there is simply no way with the current OSM data model to properly map deserts. +1, generally we are not well prepared to map huge geographic areas or