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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Landcover=wood (or the presently OSM
popular 'natural=wood')applies to trees of all types, ages,
planting densities and heights. <br>
So there are some sub tags that can be used under that land cover.
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Harvesting operations are a function of land use (forestry or
farm) and could be a sub tag under these land uses. <br>
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There are some who say that the source tag should not be used,
they want to rely on the changeset comments, these do carry a
date. <br>
Personally I prefer using the source tag. <br>
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On 10-Apr-17 04:32 PM, Vao Matua wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Clifford,
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<div>You are correct, landuse is different from landcover.</div>
<div>I assume you are tagging farmland as landuse, not
landcover.</div>
<div>The problem with landcover is that the currency and
consistency of the source information is critical and is very
difficult in OSM.</div>
<div>The OSM tagging for landcover should have two additional <b>required</b>
tags: "source=" and "source:date=" . </div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:17 AM,
Clifford Snow <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Vao Matua <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div dir="ltr">This is an interesting discussion.
As a tree farmer and professional forester I am
offended by the suggestion that a harvested area
is different landuse from areas that are in other
stages of forest growth.
<div>I understand the need to avoid current
logging operations, but I would say that crowd
sourced mapping is not the place to get that
information. There are so many basic features
missing from OSM, spending effort to collect
vegetative landcover seems like a lower need,
especially considering the fact that in a
relatively short period of time the vegetative
signature will be different.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Thank you for your input. If I
understand you, landuse=forest is what the land is being
used for while landcover is what's there. To get a
Warin's point, if you want to know if the area was
clearcut recently, we should be using landcover. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">We do have a lot of features that
need added to OSM. But I always encourage new mappers to
map what they like. Currently I have been adding
farmland to my county. It helps tell the counties story.
Farmland is just part of the story, a big part of the
county is also logging. Right now I'm reluctant to just
start adding forested areas until I learn more. Any
suggestions on how we should be mapping forested areas
would be appreciated. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Best,</div>
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