> there are 'ice meadows' along rivers and streams, where there's no tree or > shrub cover because the banks are swept with ice in the spring floods - they > have their own community of low-growing plants that can tolerate that > treatment and are often found nowhere else.
Are these plants grasses and other herbaceous and annual plants? If so, perhaps these are a wetland=marsh? Or they might be a wetland=fen if there are mosses? Or are they not actually wetlands, but rather are dry ground in the summer? https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2019/06/rare-plants-inhabit-adirondack-ice-meadows.html On 3/17/20, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:46 AM Joseph Eisenberg > <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In American English, especially in the west, the word “meadow” is used for >> areas in the high mountains which grow grasses, sedges, annual wildflowers >> etc in the summer months after the snow melts. They might occasionally be >> used to graze cattle as rangeland, but usually are only graced by elk. >> >> I think these would be called a “fell” in parts of Britain, but they are >> somewhat similar to alpine meadows / pastures in the Swiss/Austrian alps, >> where dairy cattle graze in the summer. Those really are pastures or hay >> meadows, so perhaps Americans we got that usage from Swiss and Austrian >> immigrants, and applied it to mountain grasslands? >> >> I agree that alpine “meadows” should be tagged natural=grassland, but >> don’t be surprised to find some mapped as “landuse=meadow” in the >> mountains of California and Colorado. > > There are also 'wet meadows' - wetlands with sodden soil, but with > neither standing water nor tree cover. I've seen the scrubby ones > called 'laurel meadows' or 'alder meadows' according to the plant > community. And there are 'ice meadows' along rivers and streams, > where there's no tree or shrub cover because the banks are swept with > ice in the spring floods - they have their own community of > low-growing plants that can tolerate that treatment and are often > found nowhere else. > > Yes, these should be tagged as `natural=wetland wetland=wet_meadow`. > or `natural=scrub`, or (I can't find a good tag for ice meadows but > haven't tried to map any yet). > > -- > 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
