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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/15/20 3:14 PM, Warin wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/3/20 6:01 am, brad wrote:<br>
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On 3/14/20 9:47 PM, Warin wrote:<br>
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<pre><tt>The present description of landuse=meadow is;</tt></pre>
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<pre>An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing.</pre>
<pre>That places the land cover before the land use. The emphases should be on the land use, the land use should be first?
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<pre>An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily used to produce hay or for grazing of animals. Usually vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants.
I am trying to get mappers not to use this for areas of grass land that could be more appropriatly tagged natural=grassland.
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I disagree. Perhaps a regional definition? I think meadow is
the land cover, pasture is the land use <br>
This would match my definition:<br>
Meadow: "a field with grass and often wild flowers in it: "<br>
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href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meadow"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meadow</a><br>
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href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/meadow"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/meadow</a><br>
"A meadow is a field which has grass and flowers growing in
it. "<br>
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Locally, (Colorado, USA), we might call a grassy area high in
the mountains an alpine meadow, and it may not have any
domesticated animals grazing it.<br>
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<p>Is that not the tag natural=grassland? The tag
natural=grassland is for a land cover of grass .. I think that
is what you want. <br>
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<p>The key' landuse' should not be used for land cover, so
landuse=meadow should not be used for any land cover. <br>
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<p>The presence of grass is an indication that the land use of
grazing or cropping of hay might, just might take place.<br>
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Good point. I overlooked the left side of that equation, landuse=
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British English, so I won't argue the point<br>
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landuse = pasture, or hay<br>
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natural = meadow (or natural=grassland)<br>
Make more sense to me.<br>
Note that the definitions for meadow that I quoted talk about a
landcover, not a landuse. <br>
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<p>And here is an excellent demonstration of the problem with the
OSM description of landuse=meadow. <br>
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<p>If the description contained the land use first then that would
be more prevalent in the mind of the reader, particularly when the
reader is after quick information. <br>
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Perhaps we should deprecate landuse=meadow<br>
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I think there could be a distinction between a meadow (something
that may have more 'other stuff' than grass), and grassland.<br>
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<p>What 'other stuff'? <br>
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<p>Grass covers a lot more than the domestic stuff most are thinking
of. Some grasses get to over 2 metres (6 foot) tall. <br>
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