> Vast areas of Australia are used to raise cattle, no tillage yet they are 'used' for farm land. And they are natural scrub...
These areas are considered "rangeland" in North American English. I would not tag them as landuse=farmland, because they are only lightly touched by human intervention, in most cases they are natural vegetations which has always been grazed by various animals (in the past, by American Bison or Elk, now by sheep or cattle). I agree that landuse=farmland is mostly limited to cropland: we have other tags for meadows, pastures, farmyards, orchards, vineyards, etc. - though certainly there are some meadows or orchards or farmyards that are currently tagged as landuse=farmland for various reasons. I have not seen any scrub or semi-desert rangeland tagged as landuse=farmland. -- Joseph Eisenberg On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:58 PM Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/5/20 9:14 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 01:25, Florian Lohoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > I also do consider overlapping natural and landuses to be a bug, >> either its a natural=scrub or a landuse=farmland. It cant be both. >> > > Sorry, Florian, but why do you say that? > > I've seen a lot of farms with scrub on them! > > > And trees used as wind breaks and to provide shelter for animals (both > 'farm' and 'natural'). > > > A problem is the OSM definition may suggest only those areas used for > tillage are 'farmland'. > > Vast areas of Australia are used to raise cattle, no tillage yet they are > 'used' for farm land. And they are natural scrub... > > Some areas are used for both military (a rocket range) and for farming > (they get bunkers for use when firing takes place!). They are > natural=scrub/sand/lake (dry salt)/*. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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