[Tagging] Should pastures be tagged landuse=meadow or landuse=farmland?

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Meadows (areas of mostly grass and similar herbaceous plants, cut for hay)
and pastures ( areas of grass and herbs, used for grazing by animals) are
both tagged as landuse=meadow everywhere that I have mapped.

It is rare to use landuse=farmland for either.

- Joseph

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 7:34 PM Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago a new wiki editor
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/DerBauer>
> modified several pages in a way that changes the meaning of landuse=meadow
> and landuse=farmland.
>
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dmeadow>
> Tag:landuse meadow
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dmeadow>  (diff
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Alanduse%3Dmeadow&type=revision&diff=2225909&oldid=2224216>
> )
> Tag:landuse farmland
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarmland>  (diff
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Alanduse%3Dfarmland&type=revision&diff=2225152&oldid=2224151>
> )
> Tag:landuse farmyard
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dfarmyard>  (diff
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Alanduse%3Dfarmyard&type=revision&diff=2225157&oldid=1935881>
> )
> Template:Map_Features:landuse
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Map_Features:landuse>  (diff
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AMap_Features%3Alanduse&type=revision&diff=2225907&oldid=2210904>
> )
>
> Previously these pages suggested that landuse=meadow is used for pastures
> and hay fields, landuse=farmland is used for tilled cropland, and that some
> mappers use landuse=farmland for all three.  Some ambiguity there, but that
> was the gist of it.  After the recent changes these pages now state that
> landuse=farmland should be used for tilled cropland and pastures, while
> landuse=meadow should only be used for grassy areas which are not regularly
> grazed.
>
> Is this change in meaning appropriate or not?
>
>
> The description for landuse=meadow was changed from this:
>
>> An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and other
>> non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing
>>
> to this:
>
>> A meadow - land primarily vegetated by grass and non-woody plants, but
>> which is *not* regularly grazed.
>>
>
> The description for landuse=farmland was changed from this:
>
>> Area of farmland used mainly for tillage (annual crops)
>>
> to this:
>
>> Area of land operated by a farm whether that is pastoral (livestock) or
>> arable (tillage). To be used in conjunction with crop=* to define the crop
>> (grass, wheat etc) grown on that land. Separate to tag landuse=farmyard
>
>
> Another section of the landuse=farmland page was change from this:
>
>> This tag is sometimes used for tagging every agricultural area (except
>> farmyards). However we also have separate tags for: meadows and pastures
>> landuse=meadow, fruit orchards landuse=orchard, and vineyards
>> landuse=vineyard, so many mappers prefer to use landuse=farmland for
>> cropland only
>
> to this:
>
>> This tag is to be used for tagging every agricultural area (except
>> farmyards). There are also separate tags for: fruit orchards
>> landuse=orchard, and vineyards landuse=vineyard.
>> Meadows have an often confusing separate tag landuse=meadow attributed to
>> them. An agricultural meadow is a separate distinction under the farmland
>> parent category where the ground cover is grass but is not regularly grazed
>> by livestock.
>
>
>
>
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