[Tagging] landuse meadow getting the right description emphases

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 05:19:23 UTC 2020


On 16/3/20 2:46 pm, brad wrote:
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> On 3/15/20 6:31 PM, Warin wrote:
>> On 16/3/20 11:02 am, brad wrote:
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>>> Perhaps we should deprecate landuse=meadow
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>>> I think there could be a distinction between a meadow (something 
>>> that may have more 'other stuff' than grass), and grassland.
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>> What 'other stuff'?
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>> Grass covers a lot more than the domestic stuff most are thinking of. 
>> Some grasses get to over 2 metres (6 foot) tall.
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> There are a lot of native species in a mountain, or riparian meadow 
> that are not grasses.


So .. what makes 'it' a 'meadow'? Genuine question.

Not a land use?

Not a land cover? Possibly low growing plants (less than 0.5 metres, 
includes grasses and similar plants)?

A land form?




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