2008/7/15 Tim Waters (chippy) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > as some of us have been out mapping the Irish countryside, we've come > across peat bogs. Lowland peat bogs mainly, often being used for turf > extraction (for fuel, or peat for garden centres etc). > > Anyone mapped these already? What tags do you use? It's certainly > natural, sometimes protected, and sometimes used commercially.
To expand on this - because it's something I've wondered about myself - when tagging as seen on-the-ground, there's a big difference between a bog being used commercially and a normal, untouched bog. The commercially-worked ones have had the vegetation layer stripped off to expose vast areas of chocolate-brown peat, easily recognised from satellite images. Untouched ones are marshy and have heather growing on them, but are otherwise of fairly normal appearance. Is there precedent from open-cast mines that might show us how to tag "open" bogs? Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Iren sind menschlich _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
