[Talk-GB] What is farmland?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

16 Dec 2019, 11:07 by reviews at pacific-rim.net:

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> From: "Dave F via Talk-GB" <> talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> >
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>> On 14/12/2019 15:19, Martin Wynne wrote:
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>>>  
>>> Is this "farmland"?
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>>>  >>> http://85a.uk/haws_hill_960x600.jpg
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>> I would say yes, as I believe both arable & livestock is farmland.
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>> I concur with your frustration about 'huge multi polygons', especially when joined to other features such as roads & rivers. I believe a few mappers were keen to fill in the gaps rather than map accurately. Personally I think there should be one polygon per field, but I admit that makes for a lot more work.
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> I see no benefit to mapping individual fields as separate polygons tagged as farmland if adjacent fields are also farmland.  Could you explain why you think this is best?
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Allows to distinguish between one huge
field and multiple small, less likely to
degenerate into uneditable multipolygon
with far too many ways.
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