I'd like to start adding some vegetation information to an area in the mountains of Southern California. There are a couple of situations that I am uncertain of the correct tagging of treeless areas. For this query though I'll restrict it to areas at or above timberline.
I believe the wide spread term to describe the ecosystem is "alpine tundra". Certainly the Wikipedia article on southern California mountains refers to it that way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_montane_chaparral And the Wikipedia page regarding alpine tundra affirms it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_tundra But the closest looking tag I see at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:natural seems to be natural=fell Fell appears to be a UK centric description for a subset of alpine tundra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell There are currently no natural=*alpine* tags and only a handful natural=tundra, the use of which seems to cover both alpine tundra (mountains in Colorado) and arctic tundra (northern Canada, etc.) without a way to distinguish which of the two are meant. What are the thoughts of extending the natural tag to include: natural=arctic_tundra, natural=alpine_tundra and, possibly, natural=antarctic_tundra With descriptions per Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_tundra Regards, Tod _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
