[Talk-GB] What is farmland?

[Martin Wynne]

My understanding of "farmland" is fields of arable land used for the 
growing of crops.

Vast areas of OSM have been marked in this area as "farmland", often as 
huge multipolygons which are difficult to edit in the iD editor.

On the standard map it creates massive chunks of single colour which 
don't represent the true patchwork nature of the countryside.

A lot of the land is not suitable for the growing of crops, and is only 
ever used as pasture for cattle or sheep. I would tend to call that a 
meadow. Some of it is too uneven, too high, too steep, soil too poor, 
for cultivation. I would tend to call that grassland or heath.

Is this "farmland"?

  http://85a.uk/haws_hill_960x600.jpg

If not, what should it be mapped as?

On the right the ground rises steeply to a wooded hilltop. On the left 
is a farmyard and beyond that fields of crops.

Martin.