[Tagging] Suggestions for the correct tagging of Field borders

[Dudley Ibbett]

In the UK what you describe sounds like a “field margin”.  



Here is an example web page, but search on google  under “field margins” for more information.  

http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/habitats/arable-field-margins

Farmers generally cultivate up to the field boundaries in the UK but there have been schemes to encourage them to leave “field margins”  to support wildlife.


Regards


Dudley






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To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools, Simone Saviolo



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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