On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 20:43, Tom Pfeifer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04.10.2019 19:10, Markus wrote: > > While orchard=meadow_orchard is the most used way of tagging a meadow > > orchard (2 748 uses), there > > are also 668 uses of the other subtag meadow=meadow_orchard. That means > > that people don't agree that > > the orchard is more important than the meadow. > > Apparently there is a semantic difference. When someone counts 3 apple trees > on a hectare, it is > more a meadow. If there are 35 varieties of old sorts in the backyard, it is > more an orchard, and > the farmer needs the small mower to cut the grass. > > Thus the subtagging allows to preserve the subtle differences, while a new > catch-all high-level tag > doesn't. Subtle, from Latin subtilis ‘fine, delicate.’ ;-)
I agree that there such differentiation in tagging would make sense in these extreme cases and i hope that mappers had this in mind and didn't just randomly choose a subtag. However, at many places it's impossible to say which land use is more dominant (example: [1]). How to tag these? I were very surprised if these places make only 1.4% (= share of landuse=meadow_orchard in all three tags) of all meadow orchards. [1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gebenstorf_Blühende_Kirschbäume_1874.JPG _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
