[Tagging] natural=water inside natural=wetland

[Joseph Eisenberg]

> 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 <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/5/20 9:14 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 01:25, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Sorry, Florian, but why do you say that?
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> I've seen a lot of farms with scrub on them!
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> And trees used as wind breaks and to provide shelter for animals (both
> 'farm' and 'natural').
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> A problem is the OSM definition may suggest only those areas used for
> tillage are 'farmland'.
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> Vast areas of Australia are used to raise cattle, no tillage yet they are
> 'used' for farm land. And they are natural scrub...
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> 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)/*.
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