[Tagging] Suggestions for the correct tagging of Field borders

[Yves]

Field border literally means the border of a field, so I fear the tag meaning is not as clear as it should.


On 13 juin 2014 14:35:34 UTC+02:00, Simone Saviolo <simone.saviolo at gmail.com> wrote:
>2014-06-13 14:15 GMT+02:00 Simon Wüllhorst <mail at simon-wuellhorst.de>:
>
>> Hello Guys,
>>
>> currently I’m tagging the country around my place (farmland,
>farmyards,
>> meadow and so on). Farmlands are typically surrounded or seperated by
>small
>> areas/borders of several vegetations (trees bushes, at least in
>Germany),
>> called Field Borders (or Feldrain in German, more Informations:
>> http://extension.missouri.edu/p/g9421 or
>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldrain). They are important for
>farmers
>> (to improve crops growth) and they also useful for a better
>orientation and
>> navigation in this country.
>>
>> I started a thread on forum.osm.org (It’s a german thread, so if you
>have
>> questions, please ask me) to get tips for the correct/ideal tagging
>of
>> these areas (important:it’s an area, not a way!).
>>
>> In summary I got a lot of suggestions, for example natural=scrub or
>> natural=wood, ….
>>
>> The problem of all these suggestions were, they all describe the type
>of
>> vegetation and not the purpose of these areas. Besides the vegetation
>of
>> these areas are much various, so you can’t describe them by using one
>or
>> two “vegetation”-tags.
>>
>> According to the post of “dieterdreist” (
>> http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=422045#p422045) I
>> thought about to create/use a completely new tag/value.
>>
>> At this point I’m not shure which key would be correct. I’m thinking
>about
>> natural=fieldborder or landuse=fieldborder. On the one
>landuse=fieldborder
>> seems to be the better choise, because field borders have got a
>farming
>> purpose. But on the other hand they are grown as they are and are not
>> really managed.
>>
>> So what whould be your favourite key/value for Filed Borders or what
>are
>> you thinking about this topic in general.
>>
>> PS: After the latest update of the mapnik style farmlands/farmyards
>are
>> sourrounded by a little border. Some people say that would be raise
>the
>> motivation to create smaller seperations of farmland-areas (an own
>> farmland-area for every farmland and not a farmland-area for a whole
>> region). In my opinion the inroduciton of a Filed Border tag would
>support
>> these idea, too.
>>
>
>I'm a big supporter of small farmland areas too, and I'm starting to
>pay
>more attention to what lies between a field and its neighbour. In my
>case,
>though, most fields are rice fields, which are only separated by a
>small
>earth levee (http://www.ecori.it/images/gallery/1.jpg). When they're
>not
>close to each other, it's because a track or a waterway runs in that
>space.
>While some of the larger levees are often lined with trees or bushes,
>I'm
>not sure this would still qualify as field border, in the sense of the
>landuse (in other words, I wouldn't think that that vegetation is
>provided
>for agricultural/habitat reasons, but it may be, I'm no agronomist).
>Anyway, some such areas have been tagged by their vegetation
>characteristics.
>
>I think the best solution is to provide both tags, one about the
>vegetation, one about its agricultural function, as these two functions
>are
>largely orthogonal in my view.
>
>Ciao,
>
>Simone
>
>
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