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

Elizabeth Oldham beth at the-hug.org
Mon Sep 25 17:04:32 UTC 2017


On 25/09/17 17:13, ael wrote:

> Well, surely this make the tag so general as to be pretty useless. The
> original meaning was pretty specific and useful. "Moor" or something
> equivalant is well understood (in the UK, at least) and is useful as
> a broad description where detailed mapping is absent.
> 
> Anyway, I take it that no one is objecting to my changes and wanting to
> revert them?

No objection here. Descriptive word is moor, everyone and his dog 
recognises it for what it is. The use of heath to describe moors is 
simply bizarre. IMHO/YYMV.

Beth



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