No adjectives here... "Crown diameter" is a compound noun composed of two nouns.
More likely a germanic language where the juxtaposition implies a genitive - "diameter crown" --> "diameter of the crown". Could certainly be Dutch or German - it's a very common construct. On 2015-02-23 23:22, John F. Eldredge wrote: > True. English usually has an adjective followed by a noun. I would guess that > "diameter crown" was probably written by someone more familiar with a > language where adjectives follow nouns. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot > drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. > > On February 23, 2015 3:17:33 PM Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > "diameter crown" also doesn't appear to be vernacular English, unfortunately. > "Crown diameter" or "crown spread" seem to be more widely used. For example, > see http://www.treeterms.co.uk/definitions/crown-diameter [1], and > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_crown_measurement#Crown_Spread_Methodologies > [2] > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 24/02/2015 5:09 AM, althio wrote: > > From usage at http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=tree#combinations > [3] > > I will suggest you look into: > 145 135 diameter_crown [4]=* > Missing documentation in the wiki? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:natural%3Dtree#Size [5] > > The suggestion there is tree_spread .. also undocumented. > > diameter_crown looks to be used by JOSM ... pity they did not document it. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [6] _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [6] _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [6] Links: ------ [1] http://www.treeterms.co.uk/definitions/crown-diameter [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_crown_measurement#Crown_Spread_Methodologies [3] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=tree#combinations [4] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/diameter_crown [5] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:natural%3Dtree#Size [6] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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