[Tagging] Is crop=yes tag completely and utterly useless?

[Leif Rasmussen]

But isn't that the definition of farmland in OSM?  I would map meadows,
farmyards, and orchards with their respective tags, not with
landuse=farmland.
Leif R

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 7:18 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Produce=crop would be worse, because “crop” is not a type of produce, and
> produce= is only very rarely used for crop land ( crop= is the established
> key for types of crops like rice, sugarcane, wheat, etc)
>
> As I mentioned on the Talk:Key:crop page, I suspect that this tag crop=yes
> is sometimes used to say “this area of farmland is used as crop land”, that
> is, to grow row crops like grains/sugarcane/other annuals. So at least we
> know it probably isn’t a meadow or a farmyard or an orchard?
>
> Joseph
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 7:44 AM Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Would produce=crop be better?
>> As produce could be fish, cattle, sheep, wool, or crops.
>> produce=crop would say that only crops are produced here.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18/08/19 01:27, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> >
>> > sent from a phone
>> >
>> >> On 17. Aug 2019, at 17:09, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 9326 of 9657 crop=yes is on landuse=farmland - it seems to me that it
>> is
>> >> not adding any information whatsoever.
>> >
>> > certainly removing them would be even less useful? You could read it as
>> a way of stating that something is purposefully grown there. Someone else
>> might refine it later ...
>> >
>> > Cheers Martin
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