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

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Thu Dec 16 10:33:57 UTC 2021




Dec 16, 2021, 04:30 by ezekielf at gmail.com:

> 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>
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> 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>> )
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> 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.
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> Is this change in meaning appropriate or not?
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No, as it was not discussed, significantly changes meaning, author of edits has
not linked any discussion.

And, what is the most important, old definition matched actual use of tags while 
new one is no longer matching it.

In addition actual tagging schema seems superior to one being proposed.

I think that in such cases asking user on their talk page what they are 
doing and asking for link to discussion on some open forum would be
a good idea.

Or maybe even simply reverting it and asking user to explain why they
try to redefine tags.
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