<div dir="ltr"><div>One thing for me is that if walking in the winter knowing that a particular field which a footpath crosses is arable can be very useful. If have COPD (around 40% lung capacity) and walking across a recently ploughed field can push me past the level where my breathing can cope. Obviously I therefore like to avoid such places if I can or plan for them in calculating route time (probably a factor of 4 or 5 over what one might expect from actual distance). </div><div><br></div><div>I think there are over 1 million people with COPD in Britain, so I'm probably not alone. I suspect many just avoid exposing themselves to such situations: </div><div><br></div><div>There are other reasons which others have alluded too.</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 10:09, David Groom <<a href="mailto:reviews@pacific-rim.net">reviews@pacific-rim.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<div>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] What is farmland?</div><div><br></div>
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<div>On 14/12/2019 15:19, Martin Wynne wrote:</div>
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<div>Is this "farmland"?</div>
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<div>I would say yes, as I believe both arable & livestock is farmland.</div>
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<div>I concur with your frustration about 'huge multi polygons', especially when joined to other features such as roads & rivers. I believe a few mappers were keen to fill in the gaps rather than map accurately. Personally I think there should be one polygon per field, but I admit that makes for a lot more work.</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div id="gmail-m_5143347012319754816xd94ccf90a53a404">I see no benefit to mapping individual fields as separate polygons tagged as farmland if adjacent fields are also farmland. Could you explain why you think this is best?</div><div id="gmail-m_5143347012319754816xd94ccf90a53a404"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5143347012319754816xd94ccf90a53a404">David</div><div id="gmail-m_5143347012319754816xd94ccf90a53a404"><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail-m_5143347012319754816cite2" cite="http://339a8b5d-3d83-34d2-ab11-fcd0f6c53358@btinternet.com" type="cite"><div> </div>
<div>Cheers</div>
<div>DaveF</div>
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