... Not a farmer but a country boy ... my ha'porth ... Orchards (including olive groves etc.) seem sufficiently distinct (and permanent - not rotated) to justify a tag of their own. Same might apply e.g. to vineyards.
Some plantations e.g. bananas, oil palm also seem semi-permanent given the life-span of the crop plants. Arable land (which is normally under rotation between plough, various crops, hay, rice, flax, resting non-permanent grassland) is fairly distinct - but the individual crops would probably be too ephemeral. Pastoral land - semi-permanent grassland for cattle and similar livestock - is also fairly distinct and characteristic e.g. of much of the dairy farming countryside around here. Permanent non-cultivated grassland - e.g. natural meadows, uncropped marshland meadows, alpine meadows might be another category. Would it be fairly simple then to go along the lines of: Landuse=agricultural vs. Landuse=grassland And for the former: Agriculture=arable / pastoral / orchard / plantation Maybe a fairly limited number of tags would cope - or am I being too limited geographically to be useful? Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Childs [mailto:pchi...@bcs.org] > Sent: 29 September 2009 11:24 > Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - landuse=orchard > > 2009/9/29 Claudius <claudiu...@gmx.de>: > > Am 28.09.2009 20:40, Pieren: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> This is not my proposal but this tag is used by the Corine > Land Cover > >> current import in France corresponding to the class 2.2.2 of this > >> european program (Agricultural areas -> Permanent crops -> Fruit > >> trees and berry plantations). > >> I would like to push this for improvements and a proper adoption. > >> Please check the proposal and add your comments here: > >> > >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/orchard > >> > >> Pieren > > > > I'd rather like to see this merged into some more generic > > > > landuse=agricultural > > > > tagging-scheme. Which would cover "general" farmland > (currently tagged > > as landuse=farmland) as well. Any farmer within the OSM crowd that > > could lend her/his expertise? > > > > Claudius > > > > Not being a Farmer I'm not 100% sure but I think we need to > split up how a feed is used. > > ie > > Ploughed Field, Changed Every Year. > Grass for grazing animals > Orchard, permanent or semi-permanent trees/bushes > > While some farmers may rotate there land, partally with > Orchards this is not as likely as with grassland and ploughed Fields > > Just my 2pence worth. > > Peter. > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
