[Talk-GB] Farmland (crop or animals)?

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As a walker I appreciate walking through a real hay meadow full of
attractive flowers rather than a sterile green desert of rye grass. I think
Dudley Ibbett made this point long ago about the Peak District. The
difference is roughly equivalent to walking through a dark lifeless spruce
plantation and an ancient oak wood.

As a naturalist these precious remnants are pretty much the only places
where many flowers, insects and birds are likely to be seen.

Jerry

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 11:59, Edward Catmur via Talk-GB <
talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> As a walker, the most important distinction in agricultural land (not
> including orchards) is whether it is tilled or otherwise reduced to bare
> earth, or whether grass is allowed to establish permanent root systems. How
> long or varied the grass is allowed to get really doesn't concern me,
> especially as that can change in a matter of months after a wet spring or
> an enthusiastic flock of sheep have been through. The exact terminology
> used doesn't really concern me, but where I grew up "meadow" was the
> colloquial term for pasture, even close cropped grass.
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:07 AM Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 24/05/2019 10:43, Gregory Marler wrote:
>> > What is going on with landuse=farmland, and what are we going to do?
>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarmland
>> >
>> With regard to tagging, I agree with a lot of what you say there, but I
>> suspect that the first thing to do is to talk to the wiki editor about
>> it.  It may be that they thought that they were just changing the wiki
>> in line with actual usage, it may be that they've actually discussed it
>> with lots of other people elsewhere first (just not visible at first
>> glance to me).
>>
>> For international tagging discussions the tagging list is probably the
>> best* mailing list, but it's probably worth also mentioning on the wiki
>> talk page for the tag too (and maybe the talk page for the wiki editor).
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> * or maybe "least worst" - there's a discussion there about how terrible
>> mailing list discussions are compared to controlled spaces on the
>> tagging list at the moment - but that's more to do with what happens
>> when people who don't agree (and don't even agree how to talk about
>> things) encounter people who don't agree with each other.
>>
>>
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