[Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" on Dartmoor

Colin Spiller colin at thespillers.org.uk
Mon Sep 25 12:28:02 UTC 2017


Sounds sensible to me but I'm no expert. We have lots of moor here in Yorkshire 
Colin

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On 25 Sep 2017, 12:31, at 12:31, ael <law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:10:07AM +0000, SK53 wrote:
>> than anything they reflect that OSM as a project lacks good tags for
>many
>> of these boreo-temperate upland features, and whilst that is true
>there
>
>I have been changing some "heath" areas of Dartmoor to "moor". But I
>notice that the wiki claims that this is deprecated.
>
>Since most of these are large areas which really cover a variety of 
>vegetation, I can't see that any of the "established" tags are really
>appropriate. "Moor" is exactly right. 
>
>If forced to use the documentated tags, I would go for
>natural = grassland;wetland as the best approximation despite the 
>fact that not everything is wet nor is grass.
>
>Of course, it only makes sense for coarse-grained approximate mapping,
>and more localised accurate tags are the ideal.
>
>Should "moor" or something similar be restored and supported by
>renderers?
>
>ael
>
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