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 elevations, properly tagged as > "heath" can not be so easily traversed.
I think this is a typical case for a secondary tag, in this case something like heath=open indicating open vegetation cover with continuous space in between while heath=closed would indicate continuous vegetation cover. > Here is a typical bit of low > elevation vegetation in the same area: > > http://www.californiachaparral.com/images/555_PS-A-White-Ceanothus.jp >g This already goes in direction of scrub - in fact the distinction between scrub and heath is not well defined. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
