Ed Roughly what I do, but I separate the farmhouse by surrounding it with a landuse=residental way. I also usually tag buildings either agricultural or residential accordingly. Many can be listed buildings too so heritage tagging applies. I try to connect farmyards to the road network with a track or service road
Regards Brian On 30 June 2016 at 18:20, Ed Loach <edlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are we going to need to discuss tagging? > > > > I tend to put landuse=farmyard on the way around the farmyard and > name=<name of farm> > > > > I then put the address details on the farmhouse building, and just trace > the other buildings and add a building tag (perhaps building=barn or > building=stable if I know for certain, but often just building=yes). > > > > Random example here: http://osm.org/go/0EHzKANQU- > > > > Ed > > > > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 30 June 2016 18:13 > *To:* Talk GB > *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Next Quarterly Project > > > > Hi everyone > > A new quarter starts tomorrow so we need a new topic. How about farms? > Or more precisely landuse=farmyard. These are major landmarks in rural > areas, often with sizeable buildings and usually named in OS StreetView. > The only data I've found so far is that there are approx. 100,000 > recipients of EU farm subsidies and taginfo with approx 14,000 farms mapped > in OSM - so a long way to go. There are obvious problems with just > armchair mapping - some farms seem to be little more than caravan storage, > some have transformed into equestrian centres, small industrial parks or > become just residential - so lots of encouragement for long walks or cycle > rides in the country during our glorious English summer > > Those of us in mappamercia want to try and concentrate our efforts in one > place as this makes a more obvious difference to the map - so we'll be > concentrating on the county of Herefordshire, which is generally sparsely > mapped. You're all welcome to assist, or to suggest a similar place in your > own region. > > Rob Nickerson will be setting up a taginfo script to show us a running > daily total. > > > > Happy mapping! > > > > Regards > > Brian >
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