On 16/3/20 6:01 am, brad wrote:
On 3/14/20 9:47 PM, Warin wrote:
Hi,
The present description of landuse=meadow is;
An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and other
non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing.
That places the land cover before the land use. The emphases should be on the
land use, the land use should be first?
Possibly a better description:
An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily used to produce hay or for grazing
of animals. Usually vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants.
I am trying to get mappers not to use this for areas of grass land that could
be more appropriatly tagged natural=grassland.
Thoughts?
I disagree. Perhaps a regional definition? I think meadow is the
land cover, pasture is the land use
This would match my definition:
Meadow: "a field with grass and often wild flowers in it: "
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meadow
or
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/meadow
"A meadow is a field which has grass and flowers growing in it. "
Locally, (Colorado, USA), we might call a grassy area high in the
mountains an alpine meadow, and it may not have any domesticated
animals grazing it.
Is that not the tag natural=grassland? The tag natural=grassland is for
a land cover of grass .. I think that is what you want.
The key' landuse' should not be used for land cover, so landuse=meadow
should not be used for any land cover.
The presence of grass is an indication that the land use of grazing or
cropping of hay might, just might take place.
On 3/14/20 11:46 PM, Warin wrote:
On 15/3/20 4:36 pm, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
The presence of mainly grass (or sedges, clover, other herbaceous
plants) is just as important as the presence of grazing or occasional
hay-cutting, to define a meadow or pasture.
The grass is not there once cut, the remains are stubble. Hence the word
'usually' can be employed?
Minor point, but I think most grasses are perennial, so it's still
there even if its cut.
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