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 really understand why meadow was hijacked. Phil (trigpoint) On Friday, 24 May 2019, 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 > > 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 > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
