Hello Guys, currently I’m tagging the country around my place (farmland, farmyards, meadow and so on). Farmlands are typically surrounded or seperated by small areas/borders of several vegetations (trees bushes, at least in Germany), called Field Borders (or Feldrain in German, more Informations: http://extension.missouri.edu/p/g9421 or https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldrain). They are important for farmers (to improve crops growth) and they also useful for a better orientation and navigation in this country.
I started a thread on forum.osm.org (It’s a german thread, so if you have questions, please ask me) to get tips for the correct/ideal tagging of these areas (important:it’s an area, not a way!). In summary I got a lot of suggestions, for example natural=scrub or natural=wood, …. The problem of all these suggestions were, they all describe the type of vegetation and not the purpose of these areas. Besides the vegetation of these areas are much various, so you can’t describe them by using one or two “vegetation”-tags. According to the post of “dieterdreist” ( http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=422045#p422045) I thought about to create/use a completely new tag/value. At this point I’m not shure which key would be correct. I’m thinking about natural=fieldborder or landuse=fieldborder. On the one landuse=fieldborder seems to be the better choise, because field borders have got a farming purpose. But on the other hand they are grown as they are and are not really managed. So what whould be your favourite key/value for Filed Borders or what are you thinking about this topic in general. PS: After the latest update of the mapnik style farmlands/farmyards are sourrounded by a little border. Some people say that would be raise the motivation to create smaller seperations of farmland-areas (an own farmland-area for every farmland and not a farmland-area for a whole region). In my opinion the inroduciton of a Filed Border tag would support these idea, too. Greetings from Germany (sorry for my bad english) descilla/Simon Wüllhorst
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