landuse=meadow is also used for pasture, as mentioned on it's wiki page and description. Since it's not always obvious if grass is going to be grazed or cut for hay, it would often be difficult to tell the difference.
I normally only use landuse=farmland for cropland, since the other times of agricultural land have more specific tags: landuse=farmyard for animal pens, barns, paddocks etc, landuse=orchard for orchards and plantations, landuse=vineyard for grape vines, landuse=meadow for pasture and meadow, landuse=aquaculture. Those tags cover everything except cropland, and fallow farmland, I think. On 8/18/19, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 at 14:13, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > this is what you can always do, and what you should do if you don’t know >> the specifics, although from a survey (or even from detailed aerial >> imagery) even a city dweller would usually be able to distinguish at >> least >> pasture from crops (if she passes there at the right time). >> > > It is often possible to see a random speckle of white blobs and infer those > are sheep. The > problem is that farmers move sheep from one field to another after they've > eaten all > the grass in one field. So absence of white blobs does not mean the field > is not used > for pasture. And, as I already mentioned, that field may be used for > pasture only one > year in four as part of crop rotation. > > Thinking about it, maybe we should reactivate landuse=pasture and add > landuse=arable. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arable_land which makes > the > distinction between pasture, arable land, and land for permanent woody > crops > (orchard, vineyards, rubber plantation, nut trees, etc.) We already have > tags for > many of the woody crops, so adding pasture and arable would fit in well and > wouldn't require us to change the crop=* every year because of crop > rotation. > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging