Apologies for top-posting, but the interface in the browser does not enable me
to make any sense of multiple comments. Anyway here goes:
Zostera (eel-grass) grows below the tide line, so really is not an emergent
plant. Other things in your list of aquatic bed vegetation are also not usually
Well you were right, Kenny points out that there are fresh water
aquatic beds of "grasses", "mosses" and kelp and algae in the next
email.
But we have different tags for saltmarsh and marsh, so I think it is
good to have natural=seagrass or wetland=seagrass in addition to some
other tags for
Ok, looking at the aerial imagery at
https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=16/48.4961/-122.4876 - this is
certainly not a reedbed. Reeds have long woody stems which stick up
out of the water, and they are a significant barrier to travel. Even
wetland=saltmarsh would be inappropriate, because a
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:00 PM Joseph Eisenberg
wrote:
> Do you have an example of a location which you wish to tag?
>
Here is what the researchers have documented
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 2:08 PM Clifford Snow wrote:
>
> How should eelgrass[1] be tagged? I see that wetland=reedbed [2] has been
> used in tidal areas mainly in Europe but also in the US but they are two
> different plants.
Perhaps wetland_class=emergent or wetland_class=aquatic_bed? (How
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 07:01, Joseph Eisenberg
wrote:
>
> It looks like eelgrass usually grows below the low tide line, unlike a
> salt marsh, and the grasses do not usually reach up above the water.
> So natural=wetland might not be appropriate for these seagrass
> meadows.
>
> Perhaps
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> On 18. Dec 2019, at 20:08, Clifford Snow wrote:
>
> How should eelgrass[1] be tagged? I see that wetland=reedbed [2] has been
> used in tidal areas mainly in Europe but also in the US but they are two
> different plants.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zostera
Do you have an example of a location which you wish to tag?
It looks like eelgrass usually grows below the low tide line, unlike a
salt marsh, and the grasses do not usually reach up above the water.
So natural=wetland might not be appropriate for these seagrass
meadows.
Perhaps natural=seagrass
How should eelgrass[1] be tagged? I see that wetland=reedbed [2] has been
used in tidal areas mainly in Europe but also in the US but they are two
different plants.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zostera
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_bed
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