It's unlikely that a synonym of landuse=farmland will be accepted by most mappers. That's why I suggested using something like landuse=farmland + farmland=cropland - the key farmland=* is already used (though not in a very consistent or helpful way). Or cropland=yes would also work fine.
For fallow fields, there is already a tag fallow=yes which has been used in a few places. I'm thinking of starting to use this for fields in my area that have been left fallow for more than 1 year, but still are clearly areas of farmland and not yet overgrown with scrub. On 8/18/19, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 at 14:52, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 didn't spot meadow. Sure, that's fine. > > 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. >> > > So how about landuse=arable for cropland and only have crop=* where the > mapper is certain it's monoculture and what the crop is? Maybe > landuse=fallow > too, although I'm not certain that is useful. That leaves landuse=farmland > for the situation where you're sure it's used for farming but can't tell > from > aerial imagery if it's meadow or arable or strawberries or... > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
