[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - landuse=orchard

[John Smith]

2009/9/30 Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com>:

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+1

> I fail to see any disadvantages of using landuse=farm + farm=orchard (or
> something similar). Waisting a few bits in a database is simply not a
> problem.

If you pre-process the information, eg osm2pgsql drops the type of
farm use into the landuse field it wouldn't even waste database
columns.

Other software can do the same, store the default tag or store the use tag etc.