In the USA, those would commonly be referred to as a brush pile or brush
row. They are commonly seen at the edge of a field that has recently been
cleared of bushes and saplings. Sometimes they are left to decay in place,
sometimes they are burned, and sometimes they are ground up by a
wood-chipper and hauled away.
On February 20, 2017 8:19:04 AM Jerry Clough - OSM <sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
I've many such things: the material is called brash (sometimes brush) in
the UK. It is often just collected in piles or in longer rows (typically at
the edge of the area being worked on) and these are usually referred to as
brash piles.
Brash is also used to deliberately fill gaps to discourage people (& their
dogs) from accessing places.
Dead hedge is just not a term that I recognise: it certainly isn't standard
British English in the conservation sector. Some hedgelaying techniques of
interweaving can be used, but these are in the main to reduce the size &
profile of the pile. When used as a barrier brash is usually used to plug
small gaps rather than to create a continuous barrier. Note that sometimes
brash is simply not cleared after chainsaw or brush-cutting and this may
appear to a deliberate rather than a transient & accidental barrier.
I would therefore suggest barrier=brash_pile or brush_pile, and despite
Wikipedia not dead hedge. Like every other native English speaker on this
list dead hedge means a hedge where the plants have died.
Jerry
From: Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com>
To: tagging@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, 13 February 2017, 21:02
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Dead hedge
On 13/02/2017 20:46, Chris Hill wrote:
It's a fence.
+1 to that.
Despite both of the refs on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_hedge
being English ones, it's not an English term I recognise at all, and it
could have been designed to confuse.
Cheers,
Andy
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