On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:31 AM, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: The land is not used by/for 'meadow'. > It is used to produce animal_fodder .. so landuse=animal_fodder would be a > better term. >
That depends if you view landuse as specifying a "for a" relationship or an "is a" relationship or can specify either. In favour of "for a": landuse=forestry (except it ended up being named landuse=forest). The land is used FOR forestry. In favour of "is a": landuse=quarry. The land IS a quarry. It seems to me that enforcing "for a" relationships would mean deprecating landuse=quarry for landuse=roof (when the quarry was for slate, and the primary use of that slate was roofing), landuse=doorstep (slate quarry used for doorsteps - common in parts of Wales), landuse=roof;doorstep, etc. Then landuse=road when it's a quarry for aggregate. And landuse=fire when it's an opencast coal mine. Doesn't seem to work very well if we enforce "for a" relationships for all landuse. Maybe quarry was a bad example. How about landuse=allotments? That would have to be landuse=gardening, because it's not land that has allotments on it but land that is used for gardening. Landuse=cemetary has to become landuse=dead_bodies, because it is for dead bodies. Landuse=garages - the land isn't used by garages, it's used by people parking cars, so landuse=cars or landuse=people. I conclude that your 'the land is not used by/for "meadow"', if applied generally, would be unworkable. I am therefore happy that landuse=meadow means that the land IS a meadow in the same way that landuse=quarry means that the land IS a quarry. -- Paul
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