On 28-Jul-17 07:05 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
On Thursday 27 July 2017, Tobias Zwick wrote:
Together with Roland Krüger, I am in the process of letting users of
StreetComplete, a surveyor app for OpenStreetMap, specify the produce
of orchards.[1]
We did a lot of research on which plants are grown on orchards [2]
and are now at the point where we need to decide how these should be
tagged.
Unfortunately, there are *three* competing keys to describe basically
the same things (for orchards). Neither of these is deprecated, all
are in use: trees, crop and produce.
Taginfo is your friend to find out what tags are most commonly used.
The frequency of use can be influenced by;
the date of the tags creation - the earlier a tag is created the more use it
can have over a 'better' tag created later
the pre-sets of editors - these can be the opinion of one person.
I would not place too much importance on the amount of use by itself.
Safe to say that trees=* is the dominating method to tag what is grown
in an orchard.
Looking at the wider application to farmland leads to things like potatoes,
these are not trees.
The use of the tag tree for things like strawberry plants is not good. They
are NOT trees!
Other plants, such as 'shrubs' too are being tagged as 'trees' too.
Personally I prefer the key 'produce' as it does mean what leaves the farm (or
orchard).
These is also no problem with produce such as milk - tree=milk or crop=milk
make no sense.
Then there are palm trees that produce dates ...
If you want to keep it simple .. I think 'produce' is best.
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