Here's a picture of some mountain flowers (the tiny pink ones) on Kusatsu-shirane, near Kusatsu. They look natural, but they were all planted and maintained as a tourist attraction. They were not native to the area.
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/javbw/11094084766/ The picture I took is not so good to show the large fields of them, but even though the flowers appear to be in a natural setting, these were planted for the express purpose of tourism - visitors to the sulphur crater lakes by car/ropeway would have something else pretty to see on a nearby hiking loop where there is also a good view. There were a hundred pro photographers there on the day I visited (with my photo club), all to see the blooming pink flowers. Tsukuba is a popular tourist destination (via Ropeway) and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that a small patch of flowers has been tended to and artificially expanded to be a tourist attraction. They always need something pretty for the tourist guide pamphlets! ^^ There is a flower park on the east side of Tsukuba that also needs some flower tags. フラワーパーク https://goo.gl/maps/vKTAJ9x5VSF2 These are other cases of places I have visited & mapped where I would like to tag the cultivated flowers as some sort of flowerbed or maintained flower field. Javbw > On Nov 4, 2015, at 10:47 PM, tomoya muramoto <muramototom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For Mizubasho, most famous field is Oze swamp(but sorry I have never been > there) due to a famous japanese fork song, you know. > I remember natural Katakuri flower field at the top of Mt. Tsukuba. They say > there are 30 thousand Katakuri flowers in 20,000 m2 area > (http://www.ttca.jp/?p=1552), they are on the forest floor as you said. > Actually I don't know they are *natural*, but they say so. > > Maybe you can check a list of Natural monuments designated by Japanese > government. > https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A4%8D%E7%89%A9%E5%A4%A9%E7%84%B6%E8%A8%98%E5%BF%B5%E7%89%A9%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7#.E8.A2.AB.E5.AD.90.E6.A4.8D.E7.89.A9.E3.83.BB.E5.8D.98.E5.AD.90.E8.91.89.E9.A1.9E > (sorry it is written in Japanese) > > muramoto > > > > 2015-11-04 21:47 GMT+09:00 johnw <jo...@mac.com>: >> >>> On Nov 4, 2015, at 8:52 PM, tomoya muramoto <muramototom...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> to a flower field grown naturally (not planted by man). Is it appropriate? >> >> AFAIK that a natural open area of grasses is natural=grassland. >> If it is a bit taller stuff, possibly natural=scrub ( like the 1m tall green >> plants growing along roads in Japan, for example. >> >> If it is a field of crops or stuff, like grasses or hay or something, it is >> a landuse=meadow. >> >> Do those flowers grow in such quantity to make a mappable *natural* field? >> of all that one kind of flowers? >> >> the Mizubasho looks like it grows when cultivated in a swamp or something >> (per google image search). >> >> I have seen a few growing naturally on Mt Akagi (I think), in streams/places >> with water. >> >> Where are you trying to map them? I’d love to visit a place with big fields >> of them growing naturally! >> >> most of the flowers shown here on this page ( I randomly found ) are in >> fields that seems to be very man-managed, or possibly fallow farm fields. >> >> http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/kisono3/colony/colony-e.htm >> >> But some of these would be the flower field tag we are discussing. >> >> >> some of the flowers growing naturally seem to be forest floor coverings. >> http://previews.123rf.com/images/whitetag/whitetag1310/whitetag131085326/23683697-clumps-of-katakuri.jpg >> >> I have no idea how to tag stuff on the forest or wood floor, which some of >> these natural groups seem to be. >> >> Javbw >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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