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

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 11:21:10 UTC 2021



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> On 16 Dec 2021, at 05:25, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.


IMHO landuse=farmland is a generic tag of which landuse=meadow and orchard are a part. Pasture could happen on meadow or farmland and also in some kind of orchards and forests, and also on natural=grassland

Cheers Martin 


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