Tag:landuse=meadow

landuse=meadow
Description
An area of meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing. 
Rendering in OSM Carto
Group: Landuse
Used on these elements
Useful combination
See also
Status: de facto

Used to tag an area of meadow or pasture - land primarily vegetated by grass plus other non-woody plants, mainly used for hay (meadow) or for grazing animals (pasture).

How to map

Draw a way around the area of the meadow, and tag landuse=meadow.

Tags in combination

If the meadow or pasture has a name, add name="name of meadow".

The key meadow=* has been used to indicate the process that protects the meadow status, or the kind of meadow.

  • meadow=agricultural a hay meadow or pasture, maintained by cutting, mowing or grazing.
  • meadow=transitional an area of grass which is transitioning to heath, scrub or woodland.
  • meadow=perpetual a "meadow" which is retained by natural factors. (It is more common to use natural=grassland in this case)
  • meadow=pasture a pasture for grazing livestock (not a hay meadow).
  • meadow=paddock an area of grass where horses or other animals are kept
  • meadow=meadow_orchard an area which is both an orchard (with trees grown for fruit or nuts) and a meadow. (Also see orchard=meadow_orchard + landuse=orchard)
  • meadow=wildflower A wildflower meadow. It serves primarily as a habitat for insects and for nature conservation rather than for the production of grass and hay. It is also usually regularly mown.

Photos

Rendering example

See also

  • landuse=farmland - An area of farmland used for tillage (cropland). This tag is sometimes also used for pasture or meadow.
  • landuse=grass - An area of mown and managed grass, e.g. a lawn in a park, part of a golf course, roadside verges etc.
  • surface=grass - To indicate the surface of a specific use feature e.g. leisure=pitch
  • landcover=grass.
  • natural=grassland - An area of non-cultivated grassland.
  • natural=scrub - A plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs (bush) More woody plants than a meadow or grassland.
  • natural=heath - A dwarf-shrub habitat, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, often dominated by plants of the Ericaceae. More woody plants than a meadow or grassland.
  • Vegetation - summary of tags related to areas of vegetation of different types

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