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<p class=MsoNormal><font color=navy face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>To be fair, ‘village green’
has an explicit definition in English law, which is presumably why whoever
originally defined it put the word ‘English’ in. Agreed, that it
doesn’t have to be in a village, but can be in (or, indeed, outside) any sized
population centre. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font color=navy face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>See <a href="http://www.oss.org.uk/village-greens/">http://www.oss.org.uk/village-greens/</a>
where the precise legal definition in <st1:country>England</st1:country>
and <st1:country><st1:place w:st="on">Wales</st1:place></st1:country>
is given. Basically, any land which has been openly used by local people for
recreation for twenty years without objection can be registered as common land
in perpetuity, and so protected from development.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Martin Fossdal Guttesen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 03 December 2009 01:42<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Steve Bennett<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> talk openstreetmap.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] Vegetation
page</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face="Times New Roman" size=3><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>i wrote before </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><tt><font face="Courier New" size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;background:#E0E0F0'>><a href="wlmailhtml:%7b46D6D967-B718-448E-85BE-E44A8D8A0FF7%7dmid://00001562/!x-usc:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse" title="Key:landuse">landuse</a>=<a href="wlmailhtml:%7b46D6D967-B718-448E-85BE-E44A8D8A0FF7%7dmid://00001562/!x-usc:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dvillage_green" title="Tag:landuse=village green">village_green</a></span></font></tt> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font face="Times New Roman" size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>An open area of grass in the centre of an English
village.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> and Peter Kõrner wrote</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face="Times New Roman" size=3><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> An as a foreign national my thoughts were "And I thought OSM
was an <br>
> international project..".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face="Times New Roman" size=3><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>what i ment was that there is nothing wrong with the tag,
just the descritption of it <br>
the descriptin is extreemly explicit</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>it says that this tag can only be used in
an village and it has to be an egnlish village and it also has
to be in the center of the vilage <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face="Times New Roman" size=3><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face=Arial size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com" title="stevagewp@gmail.com">Steve Bennett</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:09 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" title="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org
Hold Ctrl nede, og klik for at følge link">Open
Street Map mailing list</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
[OSM-talk] Vegetation page<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font face="Times New Roman" size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I think I might write up
some cross-cutting wiki pages like "vegetation", pointing people in
the right directions for the subtle distinctions between natural= and landuse=
etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font face="Times New Roman" size=3><span style='font-size:
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Ok, I did it.<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vegetation" title="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vegetation
Hold Ctrl nede, og klik for at følge link">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vegetation</a><br>
<br>
Lots of common bush/tree words link there.<br>
<br>
Steve <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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