[OSM-talk-be] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Upcoming removal of landuse=farm in the standard style

[joost schouppe]

Hi,

It looks like landuse=farm rendering is being removed from the standard map.

That means a huge hole is going to be visible in landuse mapping in Belgium
in a short while.

Most of landuse=farm is the oldest landuse mapping we have. It does not
differentiate between growing plants and raising animals, it is also of
poor geometric details. I fixed a lot around Halle, and it is basically a
total remapping to fix it.

Here's an overview:

http://i.imgur.com/Gbjf3sJ.jpg

In Flanders, the convention seems to be landuse=meadow for grazing lands,
and landuse=farmland for growing plants. That's not according to what the
wiki says (farmland could be grazing land). But it does make it easy to
differentiate. I don't really care what tags we choose. But I wonder if we
could tag things so that it stays easy to recognize "agricultural land of
which we're not sure whether it is grazing land or plant-growing land".

(it is probably going to be a much bigger job to fix the overuse of
landuse=grass: http://i.imgur.com/ZfpTe7m.jpg )



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From: nebulon42 <nebulon42 at mailbox.org>
Date: 2017-03-22 13:56 GMT+01:00
Subject: [OSM-talk] Upcoming removal of landuse=farm in the standard style
To: osm-talk <talk at openstreetmap.org>, tagging at openstreetmap.org


Dear all,

at openstreetmap-carto - the standard style on osm.org - a change has
been merged
(https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/2554) to drop
rendering of landuse=farm. There was overall consensus that this tag is
deprecated and its usage steadily declined over the last years, but
there are still around 340 000 uses. See
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=farm and
http://taghistory.raifer.tech/ for details.

This change will make it into the next release, but there is no release
date yet. You might want to change cases of landuse=farm in your area to
either landuse=farmland or landuse=farmyard before that. Please don't do
any automatic re-tagging though. After the release empty spots will make
it easier to clean up the remaining uses of this tag.

Michael


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