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

[Philip Barnes]

On Friday, 24 May 2019, SK53 wrote:
> As a walker I appreciate walking through a real hay meadow full of
> attractive flowers rather than a sterile green desert of rye grass. 

And as a walker a real meadow is a very nice place to sit down and enjoy a relaxing lunch or coffee break.

Phil (trigpoint)
 
> 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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