On 10-Jan-17 12:44 PM, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 10/01/17 01:20, David Groom wrote:
...
Tag info shows 579 ways tagged with crop = beet, of these 572 are in
northern Italy added by 3 users, so its probably quite easy to ask
what exactly they meant by "beet" , and retag these existing ways if
they actually should be beetroot.
In the UK I could hazard a guess as to whether sugarbeet or something
else based on the proximity to one of British Sugar's plants such as
Newark or Peterborough, but in Northern Italy asking the mapper
definitely seems like a good idea.
There are lots of 'beets' ... different kinds of plants that is.
http://www.webcitation.org/6Fu9TOBWl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au%2FSorting%2FBeta.html
Having viewed that ... I think the value can be left as beet... it maybe
viewed as 'generic' for all the different kinds.
I am only familiar with beetroot ... but I have changed the wiki
description to
"Beet field, many different kinds, beetroot and sugarbeet being two. "
It was ""Beet field"
If necessary to identify a particular beet then a further tag could be
added
beet=beetroot, sugarbeet, sea_beat etc...
Another caveat in the UK - crops are often rotated (and planted based
on price expectation) so what is beet one year is barley the next, and
perhaps oil-seed rape after that. Essentially, where this variation
happens it'd be difficult to trust any "crop" tag over a year old.
There is at least one instance of multiple values separated by ; I'd
think that would be one way of mapping crop rotation values? Rendering
is another problem.
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