Also, in areas with sufficient rainfall, a former field will revert to forest 
within 20 years or so, assuming the farmer didn't let all of the topsoil erode 
away.

-- 
John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to 
think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

-----Original Message-----
From: Cartinus <carti...@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 18:21:53 
To: <tagging@openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Landuse border alignment

On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:11:47 Anthony wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Jonas Minnberg <sas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Also, is it OK that natural overlaps landuse? It kind of has to be,
> > > since it's used a lot to place brushes or tree-areas inside larger
> > > landuses.
> >
> > Sure. If a forest crosses a fenceline, then it overlaps.
>
> Why would there be a fence within an unmaintained woodland?

Fences are commonly used to demarcate ownership.

unmaintained <> unowned


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m.v.g.,
Cartinus

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