[Tagging] tree rows vs individual trees

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 00:35, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 11. Feb 2019, at 01:24, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Many of them are more
> than just hedges.
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> there are different kind of hedges, trees may occur within hedges
>

So far, so good.

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> http://www.gartencenter-altenberge.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Buxus2028Buchsbaumhecke2920niedrig20an20Beet201.jpg
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Difficult to be sure, but that looks like a very low hedge.  As in I could
walk over it.

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> https://niedersachsen.nabu.de/imperia/md/nabu/images/natur-landschaft/lebensraeume/hecken/141230-nabu-herbstliche-hecke-helge-may.jpeg
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And that looks like an unkempt hedge.  Still a hedge.

[Crocodile Dundee voice] Now THIS is a hedge.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.0882022,-4.6463255,3a,75y,346.74h,95.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_q18XE04pp24t2Rd-jG8-Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I don't use google for OSM work, but it's occasionally useful to make a
point here because
you can take a look around.  Lining the A487 is part hedge, part fence, all
tree.  And it's
a common feature all around a large part of the countryside.

And this is what the same area looks like in iD:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=17/52.08753/-4.64727

You can see ordinary hedges in the fields immediately to the east as
compared with the
hedge/fence/ tree rows lining the A487.  You can see the crowns of the
trees lining the
A487.  That's how you tell the difference between a tree row and a hedge.

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> you may also consider natural =scrub
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> Your two examples could be scrub, apart from the fact that scrub can't be
applied to linear ways.
My examples are tree rows.  Not neat, tidy, regularly-spaced tree rows, but
rows of trees
nonetheless.  If I mapped them as a hedge it would be consfusing: "I
thought we were here on
the map but it shows a hedge and this is a lot of trees."

-- 
Paul
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