Humm, warning, pedantic hat on...
If you cannot determine what it is used for .. don't use the tag landuse.
For the presence of vegetation use the key 'natural' (it applies to both
natural and unnatural things!) and if you have problems with that (like
me with unnatural things being tagged 'natural) then use the landcover
tag (unapproved).
On 25/05/19 16:06, Martin Wynne wrote:
Apart from the specialised tags such as "orchard" there appears to be
only 2 tags available for general agricultural land:
farmland
which I have taken to mean arable land. i.e. land suitable for the
growing of crops, even if currently used as pasture for grazing by
livestock; and
meadow
which I have taken to mean other land which has no history of being
used for crops, usually because it is unsuitable in some way -- too
steep or uneven, liable to flooding ("water meadows"), poor soil,
presence of too many trees, areas of scrub, poor drainage, etc. In
many cases used only for sheep.
Here are a few pics of what I would tag as "meadow" even if not
technically "unimproved grassland" or whatever is the proper
definition of a meadow:
http:/85a.uk/meadow1_960x640.jpg
http:/85a.uk/meadow3_960x640.jpg
http:/85a.uk/meadow4_960x640.jpg
http:/85a.uk/meadow2_960x640.jpg
If "meadow" is not the correct tag, what is? Do we need a new tag?
"farmland" doesn't seem right -- none of the above is going to become
a field of potatoes any time soon.
landcover=grass (and I hate it, but for the rendering landuse=grass) for
the landcover.
But to me that is landuse=farmland, surface=grass, product=? sheep?
wool? wool;sheep?
Landuse=meadow is not something I'd use, rather than being a use of the
land it is someone tagging what they see - a land cover.
As for the need to have a specific tag for this use of the land ... well
there are vast differences between farm land used for grazing cattle in
Australia e.g.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Cooplacurripa_Station%285%29.jpg/450px-Cooplacurripa_Station%285%29.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/Anna-Creek-homestead-1.JPG/405px-Anna-Creek-homestead-1.JPG
And the Anna Creek one will change with some rain.
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