There are loads all across Herefordshire, mostly added by one user. Generally they are farms, but not always. I'm gradually replacing them withlanduse=farmyard polygons
Regards Brian On 13 September 2016 at 13:29, Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi > Off on a slight tangent. > > There's been an increase (world wide) in the use of place=farm. If you > fill out the boxes on this site you'll see: http://taghistory.raifer.tech/ > Over 19k are in GB: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/place=farm > > The reason for the increase could be it being displayed in the OSM carto > rendering > Just one example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4364588497 > > I believe many, if not all, are misinterpretations & should be > landuse=farmyard. > The wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Farm says "a place named by a > name of a farm" > To me, that means a collection of houses not associated with the farm > being collectively given the name of that farm, so in effect, a hamlet has > been named, say, Manor Farm. > > Is that a common occurrence? I know of no such in my locale. > > Dave F. > > On 11/09/2016 18:45, Brian Prangle wrote: > > Today saw us pass the 1,000 total for farmyards added during this > project(1008 to be precise). > > Well done to everyone who has participated. What has been the most unusual > farm name anyone has come across? > > Only a couple of weeks left - time to start thinking about our next > quarterly project, while we see how many more farmyards we can add. > > Regards > > Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing > listTalk-GB@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > >
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