[Talk-GB] What is farmland?
Martin Wynne
martin at templot.com
Mon Dec 16 14:13:46 UTC 2019
I'm happy to use "farmland" to mean cultivated land, whether for cash
crops, pasture for livestock, haymaking, any farming activity.
But I keep finding myself on land for which none of the available tags
really seem to apply. There seems to be one missing. For example:
http://85a.uk/bredon_960x640.jpg
Beyond the hedge is clearly farmland. But I don't think any of
farmland/grassland/scrub/meadow properly describes the foreground area.
I believe the technical term is "unimproved grassland" but I would most
likely call it "hillside". Here is some more of it:
http://85a.uk/bredon1_960x640.jpg
Is it perhaps "heath"? That usually means an open level area of
"heather", on acidic sandy soil. The wiki says: "don't use heath for
areas primarily covered by non-woody plants like grasses - use
natural=grassland or landuse=meadow instead".
cheers,
Martin.
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