[Tagging] How is the tag landuse=farmland being used?

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 10:28:29 UTC 2015


On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:13:31 +0100
"Dave F." <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:

> How are mappers using the tag landuse=farmland? To map individual
> fields or large swathes of arable land?

In my experience - both, with second treated as first version to be
replaced by detailed mapping.

> A user has recently added a large area as a multipolygon relation
> with woods, villages etc as 'inners' Is this common practice?

Sometimes it is used and sooner or later it turns into uneditable
nightmare and entire multipolygon is replaced by something simpler
(multiple simpler objects).

Is is better to avoid it.

See https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Abbe98/diary/35745 for an extreme
example.



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