As a walker I appreciate walking through a real hay meadow full of attractive flowers rather than a sterile green desert of rye grass. I think Dudley Ibbett made this point long ago about the Peak District. The difference is roughly equivalent to walking through a dark lifeless spruce plantation and an ancient oak wood.
As a naturalist these precious remnants are pretty much the only places where many flowers, insects and birds are likely to be seen. Jerry On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 11:59, Edward Catmur via Talk-GB < [email protected]> wrote: > As a walker, the most important distinction in agricultural land (not > including orchards) is whether it is tilled or otherwise reduced to bare > earth, or whether grass is allowed to establish permanent root systems. How > long or varied the grass is allowed to get really doesn't concern me, > especially as that can change in a matter of months after a wet spring or > an enthusiastic flock of sheep have been through. The exact terminology > used doesn't really concern me, but where I grew up "meadow" was the > colloquial term for pasture, even close cropped grass. > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:07 AM Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 24/05/2019 10:43, Gregory Marler wrote: >> > What is going on with landuse=farmland, and what are we going to do? >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarmland >> > >> With regard to tagging, I agree with a lot of what you say there, but I >> suspect that the first thing to do is to talk to the wiki editor about >> it. It may be that they thought that they were just changing the wiki >> in line with actual usage, it may be that they've actually discussed it >> with lots of other people elsewhere first (just not visible at first >> glance to me). >> >> For international tagging discussions the tagging list is probably the >> best* mailing list, but it's probably worth also mentioning on the wiki >> talk page for the tag too (and maybe the talk page for the wiki editor). >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Andy >> >> * or maybe "least worst" - there's a discussion there about how terrible >> mailing list discussions are compared to controlled spaces on the >> tagging list at the moment - but that's more to do with what happens >> when people who don't agree (and don't even agree how to talk about >> things) encounter people who don't agree with each other. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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