What is the best tag to specify the livestock animals in a farmyard or meadow?
I checked, and currently a number of farmyards are tagged with farmyard=*, but most values describe the feature, like farmyard=feedlot. Landuse=meadow can be tagged with meadow=pasture or =paddock, but again this does not specify the type of animal in the pasture. Some mappers have used animal=* or livestock=* with landuse=farmyard and landuse=meadow. The tag animal=* has been 2137 times - but most of the values are animal=yes (unhelpful!), leaving slightly under 200 uses of animal types like chicken, cow, cattle, goat, sheep, horse and pig. Unfortunately, the key animal=* has also been used for zoo animals (see elephant, etc) and some of the values are rare, proposed separate features like animal=wellness and animal=cemetery. The tag livestock=* is more specific for farming - livestock are domestic, agricultural animals, and livestock=* has been used 132 times with landuse=farmyard or =meadow, mostly with values cattle, poultry, horse, pig, and chicken. There's also the key produce=, which has been used about 190 times with the two features, however most values used on these features are products like meat=, eggs=, milk= and dairy= - only 61 features have an animal name like goat= or hen= (chicken?), so it appears that most mappers do not use this tag to specify types of animals raised on farmland or meadows. So it looks like livestock=* is probably the best option. I'm asking about these landuse=meadow and landuse=farmyard in particular, because the other agricultural features already have a way to specify the plant or animal that is grown or raised: * landuse=orchard (that is, the plants or trees in the orchard or plantation), trees=* is used (also includes shurbs like tea and tall plants like bananas). * landuse=aquaculture area, aquaculture=* is used (eg =shrimp, fish, mussels) * landuse=farmland, crop=* is usually used. - Joseph _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
