Changeset: 46965563
Well established lake
Closed by Martin Hügi
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imagery_used | Bing aerial imagery |
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Discussion
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Comment from chillly
Hmmm, would a deciduous wood really be called The Firs? Where are you getting these names from?
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Comment from Martin Hügi
It is deciduous now. It was actually a Norway Spruce and European Larch plantation with some site-native broadleaved. So granted it should never have been called the Firs, but that's its name. Its quite common for people to refer to conifers as firs, but there are no native firs to the UK. Only plantations, mainly Sitka Spruce on the Atlantic coasts of Wales and NW Scotland. Certainly not common in Herfordshire, where we may get some Douglas Fir in places, but always as planted trees as they are from the US. Anyway, this woodland is known as 'The Firs', although now its mainly ash, oak, some hornbeam, field maple, elms and hawthorn. So it is a historic name from when it was first planted.
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Comment from Martin Hügi
I work for the Woodland Trust as a project manager for ancient woodland restoration covering the SE and E of England. My work is all to do with converting ancient woodlands planted with non-native conifers to site-native broadleaf species. Here's a link to a guide to what I do that I wrote with a couple of colleagues if you would like to know more https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/publications/2015/12/ancient-woodland-restoration/
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Comment from Martin Hügi
So do you need proof of what people are putting on OSM, how does it work. Do you do a certain amount of background checking to ensure it is not nonsense? Or does it really on the collective weight of many people to find and correct errors?
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Comment from Martin Hügi
Excuse typos.
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Comment from chillly
We generally accept most stuff, but lately there's been a lot of junk stuff added by people trying to cheat at a game that uses OSM as it's map source. It is clear now that your edits are real and useful, sorry for the skepticism.
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Comment from Martin Hügi
That's ok. It is Saturday night after all, so I would be suspicious too
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