[Talk-GB] What is farmland?

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One thing for me is that if walking in the winter knowing that a particular
field which a footpath crosses is arable can be very useful. If have COPD
(around 40% lung capacity) and walking across a recently ploughed field can
push me past the level where my breathing can cope. Obviously I therefore
like to avoid such places if I can or plan for them in calculating route
time (probably a factor of 4 or 5 over what one might expect from actual
distance).

I think there are over 1 million people with COPD in Britain, so I'm
probably not alone. I suspect many just avoid exposing themselves to such
situations:

There are other reasons which others have alluded too.

Jerry

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 10:09, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:

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> From: "Dave F via Talk-GB" <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
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> Sent: 14/12/2019 15:54:13
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] What is farmland?
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> On 14/12/2019 15:19, Martin Wynne wrote:
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>
> Is this "farmland"?
>
>  http://85a.uk/haws_hill_960x600.jpg
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>
> I would say yes, as I believe both arable & livestock is farmland.
>
> I concur with your frustration about 'huge multi polygons', especially
> when joined to other features such as roads & rivers. I believe a few
> mappers were keen to fill in the gaps rather than map accurately.
> Personally I think there should be one polygon per field, but I admit that
> makes for a lot more work.
>
> I see no benefit to mapping individual fields as separate polygons tagged
> as farmland if adjacent fields are also farmland. Could you explain why you
> think this is best?
>
> David
>
>
>
> Cheers
> DaveF
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