Tag:natural=blockfield

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Description
A pile of rocks, often formed as a result of volcanic or glacial activity. Edit this description in the wiki page. Edit this description in the data item.
Group: natural
Used on these elements
should not be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
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Status: in use

A blockfield (also spelt block field), felsenmeer, boulder field or stone field is a surface covered by boulder- or block-sized rocks often associated with a history of volcanic activity, alpine and subpolar climates and periglaciation, sometimes with the erosion of sedimentary rock.

Blockfields differ from screes and talus slope in that blockfields do not apparently originate from mass wastings.

See  blockfield.

How to map

To map an area area of blockfield you can just draw a line closing on itself, marking the area of blockfield and tag it natural=blockfield. To map large blockfield covered areas you can use relation:multipolygon with the same tag.

It is possible to map based on the surface layer or based on the layer below the surface. If mapping is done based on the layer below the surface, it is possible that moss, grass, or trees may sometimes grow on top of it. (What makes it different from normal land is that it's made of stone, and it's still empty below the surface.) E.g.  Gotjawal_Forest

You can also use the 'wetland=bog' tag (without the natural=wetland tag) if vegetation has formed over the area.[1]

It's usually sloping, but it can also be very gentle or nearly flat. Whether they form a slope or not doesn't matter much because the boulders are usually large, so they rarely flow downhill anymore, and there is no tendency for rockfall.

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References

  1. However, the wetland=bog tag breaks the rule that natural=wetland tags should be used together, so this may change in the future based on discussion and consensus.