On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 03:29, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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? > First, it depends what you mean by paddock. Strictly speaking, in British English a paddock is not where grazing takes place. It's a holding area for horses. Sloppy British English and non-British English expand on that to include pasture and/or other animals. So, strictly speaking, a paddock is found at horse-racing tracks, riding schools, and the like. A working farm might include a riding school and so have a paddock, but most ordinary farms (even those breeding horses) would not. To answer your question, consider a working farm where one of the farm buildings has been converted to a holiday cottage and which has a parking area for the guests. Holiday cottage and parking area are within the boundary of the farmyard. I'd consider a paddock to be in the same category as that car parking: it is a feature within the farmyard that can (but need not) be mapped. Whether it should be handled as a multipolygon or not is another endless thread on the horizon. > 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). > Nobody is going to have a large paddock where horses can't graze in order to keep horses. Temporarily hold them, yes, but no larger than necessary. If you're breeding the things, you want as much space as possible for them to graze on, not for them to stand around not eating because there's nothing to eat. And if they can graze, it's pasture not paddock. I'd say a good use for landuse=animal_keeping would be to enclose dog kennels (the physical shelters) and exercise areas at a dog breeders or dog kennels (the term for temporary dog accommodation). These can be present on working farms which have other agricultural activities than just keeping dogs, so you might have such in a farmyard. But they're also possible in areas that aren't farmyards. The same thing goes for catteries, any other type of pet breeding, and any other type of working animal breeding. They might be part of a working farm that does other things. They might be part of a farm that's been turned over entirely to raising/ keeping those animals. Or they might be somewhere that isn't a farm and never has been a farm. -- Paul
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