An issue that came up in team meeting PVD2020 is an important one. The issue was raised by the question "is a tree a feature?"
Two major takeaways from the ensuing discussion.
Natural features condition how people see, move through, and use space, and so are important to record during survey. A stream may not show what people made in the landscape, but the decayed mill on its bank doesn't make sense without the stream and so failing to record it would be dumb. But it isn't a feature per se - feature really does imply human action.
Some things blur the line quite considerably. A line of cypresses beside a drive, for instance, is composed of growing stuff but very definitely reflects human shaping of the landscape. (A canal, too, is different from a stream.) Also raised as an issue in this regard was whether each tree of the line of cypresses is a feature, or if its the line of trees that is the feature (here I am tending to the latter right now - feature recording is not on the locus level for a reason, it's bigger picture).
Luiza thinks such things must arise in the Amazon project she's worked on and so she's going to do some poking. We have two issues here, one "is this a thing that needs to be recorded" and the other "if so how and what do we even call it".
An issue that came up in team meeting PVD2020 is an important one. The issue was raised by the question "is a tree a feature?"
Two major takeaways from the ensuing discussion.
Natural features condition how people see, move through, and use space, and so are important to record during survey. A stream may not show what people made in the landscape, but the decayed mill on its bank doesn't make sense without the stream and so failing to record it would be dumb. But it isn't a feature per se - feature really does imply human action.
Some things blur the line quite considerably. A line of cypresses beside a drive, for instance, is composed of growing stuff but very definitely reflects human shaping of the landscape. (A canal, too, is different from a stream.) Also raised as an issue in this regard was whether each tree of the line of cypresses is a feature, or if its the line of trees that is the feature (here I am tending to the latter right now - feature recording is not on the locus level for a reason, it's bigger picture).
Luiza thinks such things must arise in the Amazon project she's worked on and so she's going to do some poking. We have two issues here, one "is this a thing that needs to be recorded" and the other "if so how and what do we even call it".