[talk-ph] best practice for mapping landuse=farm

[maning sambale]

Thanks ian.  I'll do option 2.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:48 PM, ian lopez <ian_lopez_1115 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I prefer option two as well, since we may end up turning an unsuspecting place (specifically an obviously non-farm area, see here: http://osm.org/go/4zhFrawyw- ) into farmland. And regarding option 2's cons, I have only this to say: May tiyaga, may nilaga (or something like that).
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> --- On Wed, 11/11/09, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> Subject: [talk-ph] best practice for mapping landuse=farm
> To: "osm-ph" <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 8:58 PM
>
> Hi,
>
> I am currently tracing farms in Bulacan from the spot5 imagery.  The
> current practice I do following this example
> (http://osm.org/go/4zhBwibC) is to map as much as possible separate
> fields subdivided by "pilapils", irrigation canals and hedgerows.  But
> this gets to be a daunting task over time.
> I am reading the discussion over the talk page (
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:landuse%3Dfarm ) and the
> proposed approaches are:
>        1. Draw a polygon enclosing an entire island, like Great
> Britain, or even a subcontinent, like Europe; tag it as farmland; and
> then let everything else sit on top of that. Pro: least effort for
> mappers. Con: no way to mark unvisited land; risks telling lies.
>        2. Draw every field or farm separately, as it gets surveyed,
> and admit that we don't know about the rest. Pro: the most honest,
> accountable solution. Con: time-consuming, lots of data.
>
> Which one should we adopt? I'm inclined to follow option 2.
>
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