I have tagged as meadow when I believe the land is not ploughed. Given crop rotation tagging farmland with crop= or animal= is problematic unless that tags are updated at least annually.
One farmer I used to know is crop rotations was barley for a year or two. Then a grass ley for two or three years, which he both silaged and grazed his cows on. Then he had a crop of sweet corn , which he silaged for cow feed. In the year he rotated from grass to sweet corn he would try and get one silage crop of the land before he planted the sweet corn. Ian On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 10:44, Gregory Marler <i...@nomoregrapes.com> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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