[Talk-GB] What is farmland?

[Dan S]

Op za 14 dec. 2019 om 16:09 schreef Martin Wynne <martin at templot.com>:
>
> > I would say yes, as I believe both arable & livestock is farmland.
>
> Thanks Dave.
>
> But in that case, how on OSM do we differentiate between the two?

using an added tag farmland=*

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/farmland


> It seems silly that in some areas of OSM we can go into ridiculous
> detail, such as whether a bench seat has a backrest, but vast tracts of
> land which visually look very different are classed as one and the same?

The bench-with-backrest is a good example: generic tags for generic
tagging, and the possibly to add more detailed tags progressively.

Cheers
Dan