"Crop is a produce" What does that mean?
The word "crop" in British English means " a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable. (Oxford); or "a plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable grown in large amounts" (Cambridge). Plants are not produce, "produce" is the thing that a plant produces, in OSM: "Describes a feature's agricultural output..." - so the word "crop" is not appropriate, because "crop" is not the agricultural output of an area of farmland, but a category. But I see that there is some desire for a tag for generic cropland, or farmland used to grow unspecified crops. For this I would suggest the key "farmland=cropland" or "crop=field_cropland", rather than crop=yes (less specific) or produce=crop (unclear). https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/farmland https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/crop=field_cropland Warin, if you do decide to use any of these tags, please document them at a Tag: page or in your userspace or a proposal, if you have the time. Joseph On 8/18/19, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cannot farm land can be used for crops for some time, and then milk > cattle for some other period of time? > IIRC that is what one of my relatives did. > > > On 18/08/19 11:20, Leif Rasmussen wrote: >> But isn't that the definition of farmland in OSM? I would map meadows, >> farmyards, and orchards with their respective tags, not with >> landuse=farmland. >> Leif R >> >> On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 7:18 PM Joseph Eisenberg >> <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com <mailto:joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Produce=crop would be worse, because “crop” is not a type of >> produce, and produce= is only very rarely used for crop land ( >> crop= is the established key for types of crops like rice, >> sugarcane, wheat, etc) >> > > The rate of present usage does not limit the use of a tag. > colour=#93006B <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/colour=%2393006B> > is only used once in the data base .. > height=16 metres is only used once in the data base... > > Crop is a produce. > produce=crop has 2 uses .. presently. > I have been mapping a small area where my family farmed for several > generations ... tomorrow there will be a lot more produce=crop. > If the judgement is simply on frequency of use the result may well be > wrong. > > > >> >> As I mentioned on the Talk:Key:crop page, I suspect that this tag >> crop=yes is sometimes used to say “this area of farmland is used >> as crop land”, that is, to grow row crops like >> grains/sugarcane/other annuals. So at least we know it probably >> isn’t a meadow or a farmyard or an orchard? >> > > Vineyards have their own tag, should the tag crop=grapes be removed? > >> >> Joseph >> >> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 7:44 AM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com >> <mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> Would produce=crop be better? >> As produce could be fish, cattle, sheep, wool, or crops. >> produce=crop would say that only crops are produced here. >> >> >> >> On 18/08/19 01:27, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> > >> > sent from a phone >> > >> >> On 17. Aug 2019, at 17:09, Mateusz Konieczny >> <matkoni...@tutanota.com <mailto:matkoni...@tutanota.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> 9326 of 9657 crop=yes is on landuse=farmland - it seems to >> me that it is >> >> not adding any information whatsoever. >> > >> > certainly removing them would be even less useful? You could >> read it as a way of stating that something is purposefully >> grown there. Someone else might refine it later ... >> > >> > Cheers Martin >> > ______________ >> > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
