This is quite reasonable, although as I use farmland for all agriculture (but not viticulture or orchards) I had never appreciated that it seems to have become synonymous with arable. I still think landuse=farmland, farmland=arable is a better way of tagging (& a tad friendlier to data consumers).
There is one point where I would take exception landuse=meadow; there still should be a distinction for grasses grown as a 'crop' for leys (monocultures of grasses mainly for silage) and hay meadows, and fields predominantly used for pasture. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net> wrote: > On 30 April 2013 12:32, Henry Gomersall <h...@cantab.net> wrote: > >> Does meadow mean grazing land? Do we define high fell land as "meadow" >> as well when it's used for grazing sheep? >> >> Perhaps a landuse=grazing should be available. >> > > If you wanted to define field types, I'd suggest the following tags. This > is more or less what is on the wiki, but ignoring some of the more stupid > conventions that someone has introduced. > > landuse=farmland for agricultural land (crops, pasture, fruits, etc.) > landuse=meadow for meadows that are kept by grazing animals > natural=meadow for meadows that are left to themselves > natural=scrub/fell/heath/scrub based on standard English definitions. > > Look on the wiki for other values e.g. for mountainous or coastal areas. > > Regards, > Tom > > -- > http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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