On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 16:38:56 +0000 Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, 5 April 2019, Richard Welty wrote: > > On 4/5/19 11:19 AM, Cédric Mélac wrote: > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Grain_Storage_Centre > > > Defintion: A large site with many silos and barns which > > > concentrates crops from farms around before selling at best > > > prices. > > > > these are commonly called Elevators in the US. i don't know what > > british usage is. > > British usage is silo. > > They are in my experience, I live in a rural area, found on > individual farms rather than in any facility. Farms will tend to > store grain themselves. > > Farming around here, certainly arable, is on an industrial scale. I > imagine these are associated with co-operatives and relatively small > farms. > American English grain elevator: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.7591426,-118.5290499,3a,74.6y,153.92h,101.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSQUMNc9VimuAS_gMyyJmog!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1 American English silo (a small one, and probably not used for storing grain. Places that have standalone silos tend not to be places that have Google StreetView): https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0046952,-117.3503996,3a,28.2y,217.27h,89.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sthnyTWcsvnaxCW6uM7Xe_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 -- Mark _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
