On 30/04/2013 09:38, Henry Gomersall wrote:
I noticed that lots of fields, for example in http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.92332&lon=-1.7091&zoom=15&layers=M are shown as closed loops of landuse=field. Clearly walls/fences and enclosed fields are somewhat equivalent, but subtly different in terms of what they describe (certainly, walls are not always around fields)
Sometimes fields do not have any physical barrier, such as a fence, wall, hedge or ditch. Rather, the farmer just leaves an uncultivated margin separating adjacent fields. The position of this margin is (often, at least) stable from year to year, so seems worth representing in OSM. This seems to argue for mapping each field as a landuse=field loop, at least in such cases.
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