[talk-au] Country homesteads?

[Warin]

On 26/4/22 09:33, Bob Cameron wrote:
> So I'll ask some assistance from a mass edit guru here...
>
> I'd like to change all my own landuse:farm nodes to place:farm, 
> leaving all child keys as they are. Since I only use ID is there 
> anyone can help do this? Does it require any kind of formal control?


Fairly simple in JOSM.. never used iD so cannot help there.

I can get JOSM to find all your nodes with landuse:farm and give you the 
nodes id numbers. Might be able to do the same with overpass turbo...

>
> Oh and I have found that DCS base and topo is sometimes dated with 
> station/farm names, so much so that I include a fixme to that effect 
> if I use it as single data source. That way I get to wander down 
> remote farm roads (re)checking on the mailbox signs!


I have found a few of them to be 'disused' or 'abandoned' going by the 
state of the homestead.