<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>On May 29, 2015, at 7:35 PM, pmailkeey . <<a href="mailto:pmailkeey@googlemail.com">pmailkeey@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There are no man made trees in<br>
the forest, they all grow naturally.<div style="display: none;"><br>
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<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Man can plant a natural tree - or it could self-seed.</div></div><div></div></blockquote><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In osm there is a distinction between cultivated and constructed. We already do this will all other "cultivated" ground - and including forests into man_made does not follow existing tags that make more sense. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A farm field and a planted cedar forest are both land cleared, altered, and prepared to grow a crop, tended to throughout their growth cycle, and then the crop is harvested and eventually reseeded (usually), but neither are man-made structures like a dam or a bridge - otherwise man_made would be the most prevalent tag on the map - as we have altered most of the flat arable land on Earth. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Man_made seems to be the catch-all for non-amenity non-building structures that are commonly found where people are.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Managed Forests, farmland, Gardens, parks, and other "prepared" places are cultivations for different purposes - food, lumber, flowers, leisure - but are not a "building" nor "structure". </span></div><div><br></div><div>You can say the land is altered for a purpose (Landuse), but a group of plants is not a "non-building structure."</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>Putting forests in man_made makes it the odd man out. </div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Javbw </span></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>