Volker Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Still "grass" > > doesn't become a landuse. > > > > I woul dnot agree with this statement. In many areas of the world, > grass is > grown and harvested as (winter) fodder for animals. According to > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landuse this is tagged as > landuse=grass > If the grass is used for grazing, the wiki suggests landuse=meadow > > For the the mapper who is not a farming expert, it's often difficult > to > distinguish between the two uses. In addition in many cases both uses > apply > to the same piece of land at different seasons. > > Volker > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
Yes, if animals are intended to graze on the grass, if the grass will be harvested for use as fodder (what my earlier message termed a hay field), or if sod will subsequently be transplanted elsewhere (a sod farm), then the grass is being grown as a crop, and landuse=grass is appropriate. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
