[Talk-GB] When is a hedge a wood?

[Chris Jones]

Hi Martin,

1) The boundary is is clearly a fence. Thats what stops you just walking across.

You can map the trees as several natural : tree or a tree_row depending on how long the row is I guess. Certainly not a hedge or wood.

2) The road is a highway, the grass is a verge.. the wiki suggests you can either tag the verge as a property of the highway or as a separate landuse=grass. Your call, but to me in this case its part of the highway.

—
Chris

> On 27 Aug 2018, at 05:35, Martin Wynne <martin at templot.com> wrote:
> 
> Rural boundaries can be extraordinarily difficult to map. For example, is this:
> 
> https://goo.gl/maps/FtjMZiwNj542
> 
> a) a fence,
> 
> b) a hedge,
> 
> c) a very narrow wood,
> 
> d) all three at the same time?
> 
> Is the area in front of it
> 
> a) grass,
> 
> b) highway,
> 
> c) both?
> 
> (Not mapping from Google, I walked along there recently.)
> 
> Often a wood adjoins an open area such as a water meadow. If there is a fence between them, the boundary is clear, even if the wood canopy overlaps into the meadow. If there isn't a fence, where do you put the boundary? The edge of the canopy? The line of tree trunks? Some imaginary line between the two?
> 
> Some trees are very large and their branches can extend a significant distance - across a river for example.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Martin.
> 
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