<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Have you considered using landsat-8 or sentinel-2 to get current landcover<br>
using the QGIS plugin Semi-Automatic Classification? Landviewer [1] has a<br>
nice interface for finding imagery that is cloud free and of recent<br>
vintage? The learning curve to landcover classification is a bit steep, but<br>
it should be sufficiently accurate for remote areas.... Clifford<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Scandanavian Forest services already have extremely detailed web services to provide this information ... '<i>Many users want to see how much forest there is in a
specified area, estimate its average age, and to see which tree species
it contains.
SLU Forest Map contains spatial information with a high
degree of detail over most of Sweden's forestland. SLU Forest Map is
based on a combination of data from the <a href="https://www.slu.se/en/Collaborative-Centres-and-Projects/the-swedish-national-forest-inventory/">Swedish National Forest Inventory</a> and <a href="https://saccess.lantmateriet.se/portal/saccess_se.htm">satellite data</a> ... SLU Forest Map is available free of charge as either a download or within our web based GIS application.</i>'<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">... including delivery to <i>MineCraft</i> ... ('<a href="http://www.lantmateriet.se/en/Maps-and-geographic-information/Maps/oppna-data/hamta-filer-till-minecraft/anvandningsexempel/#"><span class="gmail-noindex" lang="sv"><font><font class="gmail-">Examples of the use of open geodata in Minecraft</font></font></span></a>') ... now that's Open Data!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My guess is the permits for future operations are online also. Such an inventory is is a <a href="http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100691-forestry-by-way-of-aerial-imagery-remote-sensing-gis">non-trivial task</a>, especially maintaining it. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">A better way to handle this would be a federated page that layers OSM and the forestry web service(s).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Michael Patrick<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Data Ferret<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">OSM Seattle<br></div></div>