[Talk-GB] Named landuse polygons

[Warin]

On 18-Jan-17 07:27 AM, Dave F wrote:
>
> On 17/01/2017 19:38, Warin wrote:
>
>> Generally I add a node place=farm as I am not certain where the 
>> boundary lies 
>
> This is a misuse of this tag. place=farm is for the rare (non 
> existent?) cases where a residential community, such as a hamlet, has 
> acquired the name of an adjacent farm. "a place named by a name of a 
> farm" - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Farm
>
> The description for 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dfarm is poorly written 
> & confusing.
>
> If mapping just the sheds/farmhouse etc of a farm, landuse=farmyard 
> should be used.
>
> It was discussed previously: 
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2016-September/019181.html 
>
>
> DaveF

In Australia .. place=farm is appropriate.
The next farm may be 250 miles away, as such it usually has facilities 
for seasonal workers (say 20 people), machinery maintenance, air strip, 
... etc.
They are substantial places that are important in a mapping and social 
sense.
Most still have the name painted on the roof to assist aerial navigation.

Remember that OSM is world wide, you can define things locally .. but 
they won't fit everywhere, hence the OSMwiki fuzziness.