In the UK what you describe sounds like a “field margin”.
Here is an example web page, but search on google under “field margins” for
more information.
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/habitats/arable-field-margins
Farmers generally cultivate up to the field boundaries in the UK but there have
been schemes to encourage them to leave “field margins” to support wildlife.
Regards
Dudley
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From: Yves
Sent: Friday, 13 June 2014 15:33
To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools, Simone Saviolo
Field border literally means the border of a field, so I fear the tag meaning
is not as clear as it should.
On 13 juin 2014 14:35:34 UTC+02:00, Simone Saviolo <simone.savi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
2014-06-13 14:15 GMT+02:00 Simon Wüllhorst <m...@simon-wuellhorst.de>:
Hello Guys,
currently I’m tagging the country around my place (farmland, farmyards, meadow
and so on). Farmlands are typically surrounded or seperated by small
areas/borders of several vegetations (trees bushes, at least in Germany),
called Field Borders (or Feldrain in German, more Informations:
http://extension.missouri.edu/p/g9421 or
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldrain). They are important for farmers (to
improve crops growth) and they also useful for a better orientation and
navigation in this country.
I started a thread on forum.osm.org (It’s a german thread, so if you have
questions, please ask me) to get tips for the correct/ideal tagging of these
areas (important:it’s an area, not a way!).
In summary I got a lot of suggestions, for example natural=scrub or
natural=wood, ….
The problem of all these suggestions were, they all describe the type of
vegetation and not the purpose of these areas. Besides the vegetation of these
areas are much various, so you can’t describe them by using one or two
“vegetation”-tags.
According to the post of “dieterdreist”
(http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=422045#p422045) I thought
about to create/use a completely new tag/value.
At this point I’m not shure which key would be correct. I’m thinking about
natural=fieldborder or landuse=fieldborder. On the one landuse=fieldborder
seems to be the better choise, because field borders have got a farming
purpose. But on the other hand they are grown as they are and are not really
managed.
So what whould be your favourite key/value for Filed Borders or what are you
thinking about this topic in general.
PS: After the latest update of the mapnik style farmlands/farmyards are
sourrounded by a little border. Some people say that would be raise the
motivation to create smaller seperations of farmland-areas (an own
farmland-area for every farmland and not a farmland-area for a whole region).
In my opinion the inroduciton of a Filed Border tag would support these idea,
too.
I'm a big supporter of small farmland areas too, and I'm starting to pay more
attention to what lies between a field and its neighbour. In my case, though,
most fields are rice fields, which are only separated by a small earth levee
(http://www.ecori.it/images/gallery/1.jpg). When they're not close to each
other, it's because a track or a waterway runs in that space. While some of the
larger levees are often lined with trees or bushes, I'm not sure this would
still qualify as field border, in the sense of the landuse (in other words, I
wouldn't think that that vegetation is provided for agricultural/habitat
reasons, but it may be, I'm no agronomist). Anyway, some such areas have been
tagged by their vegetation characteristics.
I think the best solution is to provide both tags, one about the vegetation,
one about its agricultural function, as these two functions are largely
orthogonal in my view.
Ciao,
Simone
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