Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

In American English, especially in the west, the word “meadow” is used for areas in the high mountains which grow grasses, sedges, annual wildflowers etc in the summer months after the snow melts. They might occasionally be used to graze cattle as rangeland, but usually are only graced by elk. I

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 16/3/20 2:46 pm, brad wrote: On 3/15/20 6:31 PM, Warin wrote: On 16/3/20 11:02 am, brad wrote: Perhaps we should deprecate landuse=meadow I think there could be a distinction between a meadow (something that may have more 'other stuff' than grass), and grassland. What 'other

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 3/15/20 6:31 PM, Warin wrote: On 16/3/20 11:02 am, brad wrote: Perhaps we should deprecate landuse=meadow I think there could be a distinction between a meadow (something that may have more 'other stuff' than grass), and grassland. What 'other stuff'? Grass covers a lot more than

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 16/3/20 11:52 am, Paul Allen wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 00:33, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com > wrote: Grass covers a lot more than the domestic stuff most are thinking of. Some grasses get to over 2 metres (6 foot) tall. If you're going to include

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 00:33, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Grass covers a lot more than the domestic stuff most are thinking of. Some > grasses get to over 2 metres (6 foot) tall. > If you're going to include exotic grasses, some reach 25 metres tall. -- Paul

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 16/3/20 11:02 am, brad wrote: On 3/15/20 3:14 PM, Warin wrote: On 16/3/20 6:01 am, brad wrote: On 3/14/20 9:47 PM, Warin wrote: Hi, The present description of landuse=meadow is; An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants, mainly used for

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 3/15/20 3:14 PM, Warin wrote: On 16/3/20 6:01 am, brad wrote: On 3/14/20 9:47 PM, Warin wrote: Hi, The present description of landuse=meadow is; An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing. That places the

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 16/3/20 6:01 am, brad wrote: On 3/14/20 9:47 PM, Warin wrote: Hi, The present description of landuse=meadow is; An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing. That places the land cover before the land use. The

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 3/14/20 9:47 PM, Warin wrote: Hi, The present description of landuse=meadow is; An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing. That places the land cover before the land use. The emphases should be on the land use,

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - give box

On Sun, 2020-03-15 at 12:42 -0400, Jmapb via Tagging wrote: > On 3/15/2020 6:18 AM, Markus Peloso > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/give_box > > > > A small

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - give box

On 3/15/2020 6:18 AM, Markus Peloso wrote: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/give_box A small facility where people drop off and pick up various types of items in the sense of free sharing. Hi After "Clarify whatever explicit abstaining is the same as no vote" and the

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - give box

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/give_box A small facility where people drop off and pick up various types of items in the sense of free sharing. Hi After "Clarify whatever explicit abstaining is the same as no vote" and the change of the Proposal process page I reopen the

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 15/3/20 6:25 pm, Tomas Straupis wrote: 2020-03-15, sk, 08:53 Warin rašė: There is no real 'force' on a mapper to do anything. If a mapper chooses not to use the subtags then they don't have to. landuse=meadow was mention together with natural=grassland etc. If it is only about subtags

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

2020-03-15, sk, 08:53 Warin rašė: > There is no real 'force' on a mapper to do anything. If a mapper chooses not > to use the subtags then they don't have to. landuse=meadow was mention together with natural=grassland etc. If it is only about subtags meadow=* - I'm fine with that. > Similar

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 15/3/20 5:01 pm, Tomas Straupis wrote: Why would you want to "force" using more than one class for meadows when absolute majority of maps will not need more that one class? Not certain what the above refers to? I'll take it as meadow=perpetual. There is no real 'force' on a mapper to do

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

On 15/3/20 4:55 pm, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: One is a land use the other a land cover. In practice they are both types of vegetation (grass + similar). Mappers have to base their tagging off of what can be seen: that's the type of vegetation (grass and other herbaceous plants), plus other clues

Re: [Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

Why would you want to "force" using more than one class for meadows when absolute majority of maps will not need more that one class? -- Tomas ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging