<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 September 2017 17:13:01 BST, ael <law_<a href="http://ence.dev">ence.dev</a>@ntlworld.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:36:22PM +0100, SK53 wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Moor (or possibly fell) covers a decent amount of Corine data imported<br /> across Europe as natural=heath. In effect natural=heath on OSM no longer<br /> means heath. It may mean any of the following:<br /> <br /> - Upland vegetation in its broadest sense: unimproved upland grassland,<br /> drier blanket bogs (covered by heather), Racometrium heath, Bilberry<br /> dominated heath, Shrubby vegetation dominated by brooms (at least in France<br /> & Spain), and no doubt a few others I've missed.<br /> - Moorland in Britain, which is probably a slightly smaller subset of<br /> the above<br /> - Lowland heathland: places like the Surrey Heaths, Suffolk Sandlings,<br /> Norfolk Brecks etc.<br /> - Other less obvious lowland areas known as heaths: particularly with<br /> large swathes of bracken and patches of birch.<br /> <br /> When this thread first started I thought we could work to remove these<br /> multiple meanings, but having seen what places with natural=heath from<br /> Corine imported-data in the Cevennes, suspect that this is an unrealistic<br /> objective.<br /></blockquote><br />Well, surely this make the tag so general as to be pretty useless. The<br />original meaning was pretty specific and useful. "Moor" or something<br />equivalant is well understood (in the UK, at least) and is useful as<br />a broad description where detailed mapping is absent.<br /><br />Anyway, I take it that no one is objecting to my changes and wanting to<br />revert them?<br /><br />ael<br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Talk-GB mailing list<br />Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">This was discussed in a thread here a number of years ago. There is a lot of upland heath on the moor:<br>
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<a href="http://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/wildlife-and-heritage/habitats2/moorland/upland-heathland">http://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/wildlife-and-heritage/habitats2/moorland/upland-heathland</a><br>
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I think it would be better if it was kept as heath with a sub type. Just changing it to moor doesn't add anything useful.<br>
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Kevin<br>
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