I recently saw the page "landuse=animal_keeping", which was proposed for things like horse paddocks (not exactly meadows) which are not parts of farms (eg, recreational horses owned by equestrians who do not consider themselves farmers) - though it's also used for features that might be considered the part of a farmyard, like an "open stable" (translation from German), a type of cattle or horse shelter with only partial walls.
That tag page also suggests the tag animal_keeping=* with the type of animal as the value. The vast majority (75%) are =horse, but =cow, =sheep, =chicken, =goat, =pig, =fish, and =orca have been used more than a dozen times each. This tag seems like it could be used for both zoo animals, pets, and livestock, so it has the same issues as animal=* with allowing a long list of values, though at least the key isn't used for totally different purposes. Also, it's not clear to me when one would use landuse=animal_keeping instead of landuse=farmyard or landuse=meadow. If a farm has a paddock for horses next to the barn and farmhouse, is this landuse=farmyard? If there is a feedlot for cattle, is this landuse=farmyard with farmyard=feedlot (used 600 times), or landuse=animal_keeping? Are zoos or aquariums animal_keeping? Pastures? I'd like to be able to write something on the landuse=animal_keeping page which would help mappers when to use that tag instead of landuse=meadow or landuse=farmyard. My guess is that landuse=animal_keeping should be reserved for areas used to keep large riding/recreational animals like horses, which are not a pasture, meadow, farmyard, or residential area instead, so that would mainly be large areas used for recreational horses or other non-agricultural animals (not used meat or animal products). Small yards used to keep dogs in a landuse=residential area probably don't need this tag, and I probably wouldn't use it for zoos. -Joseph _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
