[Tagging] Dead hedge

[John F. Eldredge]

In the USA, those would commonly be referred to as a brush pile or brush 
row. They are commonly seen at the edge of a field that has recently been 
cleared of bushes and saplings. Sometimes they are left to decay in place, 
sometimes they are burned, and sometimes they are ground up by a 
wood-chipper and hauled away.


On February 20, 2017 8:19:04 AM Jerry Clough - OSM <sk53_osm at yahoo.co.uk> 
wrote:

> I've many such things: the material is called brash (sometimes brush) in 
> the UK. It is often just collected in piles or in longer rows (typically at 
> the edge of the area being worked on) and these are usually referred to as 
> brash piles.
> Brash is also used to deliberately fill gaps to discourage people (& their 
> dogs) from accessing places.
> Dead hedge is just not a term that I recognise: it certainly isn't standard 
> British English in the conservation sector. Some hedgelaying techniques of 
> interweaving can be used, but these are in the main to reduce the size & 
> profile of the pile. When used as a barrier brash is usually used to plug 
> small gaps rather than to create a continuous barrier. Note that sometimes 
> brash is simply not cleared after chainsaw or brush-cutting and this may 
> appear to a deliberate rather than a transient & accidental barrier.
> I would therefore suggest barrier=brash_pile or brush_pile, and despite 
> Wikipedia not dead hedge. Like every other native English speaker on this 
> list dead hedge means a hedge where the plants have died.
> Jerry
>
>       From: Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com>
>  To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
>  Sent: Monday, 13 February 2017, 21:02
>  Subject: Re: [Tagging] Dead hedge
>
> On 13/02/2017 20:46, Chris Hill wrote:
>>
>> It's a fence.
>>
>
> +1 to that.
>
> Despite both of the refs on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_hedge
> being English ones, it's not an English term I recognise at all, and it
> could have been designed to confuse.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
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