[Tagging] natural=????

Dominik George nik at naturalnet.de
Tue Sep 10 21:06:13 UTC 2013


Why? If there is a difference, then there is a difference.

BTW, mind fix your From name, Mrs. or Mr. Gmail?

-nik



Gmail <yvecai at gmail.com> schrieb:
>In a geo database, tundra alone must be sufficient, don't you think ?
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>Tod Fitch <Tod at FitchDesign.com> a écrit :
>>I'd like to start adding some vegetation information to an area
>>in the mountains of Southern California. There are a couple of
>>situations that I am uncertain of the correct tagging of treeless
>>areas. For this query though I'll restrict it to areas at or
>>above timberline.
>>
>>I believe the wide spread term to describe the ecosystem is
>>"alpine tundra". Certainly the Wikipedia article on southern
>>California mountains refers to it that way:
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_montane_chaparral
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>>And the Wikipedia page regarding alpine tundra affirms it:
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_tundra
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>>But the closest looking tag I see at
>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:natural seems to be
>natural=fell
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>>Fell appears to be a UK centric description for a subset of
>>alpine tundra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell
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>>There are currently no natural=*alpine* tags and only a handful
>>natural=tundra, the use of which seems to cover both alpine tundra
>>(mountains in Colorado) and arctic tundra (northern Canada, etc.)
>>without a way to distinguish which of the two are meant.
>>
>>What are the thoughts of extending the natural tag to include:
>>natural=arctic_tundra, natural=alpine_tundra and, possibly,
>>natural=antarctic_tundra
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>>With descriptions per Wikipedia:
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_tundra
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>>Regards,
>>Tod
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