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 think added much. The default style helped by making it a very subtle colour. It was always land that is used for tillage(crops) or pasture(animals). There was some thought to add tagging of crop=yes or animal=* to be more specific if desired. I have then started seeing people map a lot of landuse=meadow. I disagreed, but it seems the wiki page was changed in November. I don't think there was any discussion, and Harry even clarified the wording in December. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Alanduse%3Dfarmland&type=revision&diff=1689614&oldid=1663478 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. Most importantly, this is going to cause confusion and disparity over what is being mapped and how/why. >From Durham, Gregory. -- Gregory Marler
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