Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-09-05 Thread Johan Jönsson
Bryce Nesbitt bryce2@... writes: The http://www.mrlc.gov/ Is a partnership of: federal and state partner agencies interested in assisting in either the population of the Landsat database or collaboration in developing the Land Cover database.

Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2011/9/5 Johan Jönsson joha...@goteborg.cc: They have shown a distinct movement from land use-like classes to more physical definitions. The old Bare_Rock/Sand/Clay have been replaced by the simpler barren_land. !!This could be an alternative approach to the tag-name. Use vegetated or

Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-09-04 Thread Johan Jönsson
It might not be a good idea to try to find one tag all areas of rock (that then could be refined). Probably it would be better to find a general tag for areas of solid rock and another general tag for areas of fragmented rock. I am looking for a general term as there seem to be so many

Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-09-04 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Thehttp://www.mrlc.gov/ Is a partnership of: * Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) * National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) * United States Forest Service (USFS) * United States Geological Survey (USGS) * LANDFIRE * Bureau of Land Management (BLM) *

Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-09-02 Thread Johan Jönsson
Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist@... writes: 2011/9/1 Johan Jönsson johan.j at goteborg.cc: I have also looked at the UN-organization FAO that reasons about a scheme for tagging land cover... http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/X0596E/x0596e01f.htm It's indeed interesting how they do

Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-09-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2011/9/1 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On 8/31/2011 1:50 PM, Johan Jönsson wrote: A name to use for tagging stony ground. I am looking for a denomination to use for an area that have little or no vegetation so that the stony ground shows. Could there be a tag describing everything

Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-09-01 Thread Johan Jönsson
Bryce Nesbitt bryce2@... writes: On 08/31/2011 10:50 AM, Johan Jönsson wrote: A name to use for tagging stony ground. I am looking for a denomination to use for an area that have little or no vegetation so that the stony ground shows. Could there be a tag describing everything from

Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-08-31 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On 08/31/2011 10:50 AM, Johan Jönsson wrote: A name to use for tagging stony ground. I am looking for a denomination to use for an area that have little or no vegetation so that the stony ground shows. Could there be a tag describing everything from coarse gravel, boulders, scree to exposed

Re: [Tagging] A name for stony ground?

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/31/2011 1:50 PM, Johan Jönsson wrote: A name to use for tagging stony ground. I am looking for a denomination to use for an area that have little or no vegetation so that the stony ground shows. Could there be a tag describing everything from coarse gravel, boulders, scree to exposed