Humm, warning, pedantic hat on...
If you cannot determine what it is used for .. don't use the tag landuse.
For the presence of vegetation use the key 'natural' (it applies to both
natural and unnatural things!) and if you have problems with that (like
me with unnatural things being tagged
Apart from the specialised tags such as "orchard" there appears to be
only 2 tags available for general agricultural land:
farmland
which I have taken to mean arable land. i.e. land suitable for the
growing of crops, even if currently used as pasture for grazing by
livestock; and
meadow
Humm What is it that needs to be tagged? Possibly some sub tags for
tillage=yes/no/yearly/* ? to indicate if ploughed and if known how
frequently
produce:category=animal/plant to indicate the broad group of produce?
This could then be applied to any 'landuse' ... no matter how it is tagged.
Fair enough, I agree that a wildflower meadow is a very pleasant place to
be. However, I would still be more concerned to avoid the unpleasantness of
walking through cropland where the path is variously ploughed under,
utterly obscured by wheat or maize, or in the best case surfaced with heavy
On Friday, 24 May 2019, SK53 wrote:
> As a walker I appreciate walking through a real hay meadow full of
> attractive flowers rather than a sterile green desert of rye grass.
And as a walker a real meadow is a very nice place to sit down and enjoy a
relaxing lunch or coffee break.
Phil
As a walker I appreciate walking through a real hay meadow full of
attractive flowers rather than a sterile green desert of rye grass. I think
Dudley Ibbett made this point long ago about the Peak District. The
difference is roughly equivalent to walking through a dark lifeless spruce
plantation
It is well-known that meadows (hay meadows) are now a vanishingly small
part of the British landscape. For instance in Nottinghamshire we have
around 28 ha of MG4 grassland (the typical meadow plant community for
meadows in the East Midlands).
Work
As a walker, the most important distinction in agricultural land (not
including orchards) is whether it is tilled or otherwise reduced to bare
earth, or whether grass is allowed to establish permanent root systems. How
long or varied the grass is allowed to get really doesn't concern me,
On 24/05/2019 10:43, Gregory Marler wrote:
What is going on with landuse=farmland, and what are we going to do?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarmland
With regard to tagging, I agree with a lot of what you say there, but I
suspect that the first thing to do is to talk to
I have used farmland=pasture and farmland=arable to cover these cases.
Other cases could be farmland=vineyard.
Sadly too many mappers use meadow to describe pasture which is a shame as it
would be good to be able to find real meadows. Obviously these cannot easily be
armchaired.
I don't
On 24/05/2019 10:43, Gregory Marler wrote:
to me, meadow is a different to the common farm fields that have animals
in. A meadow is likely longer grass, or encouraged to get long. It might
be for flowers/wildlife rather than animals.
Meadows, in farms, in a land use context, are for producing
What is going on with landuse=farmland, and what are we going to do?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarmland
It had a classic "map for the renderer" and "no blank spots on the map"
problem. Armchair mappers found it important to map large swathes of
farmland, which I don't
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