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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/06/18 19:37, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:41 PM, Martin
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> On 9. Jun 2018, at 15:53, Paul Allen <<a
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> Landuse=forest could mean a group of trees which are
not<br>
> consistently used by a single organization for
anything (and often called "Xyz Forest"<br>
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interesting, can you give a real world example where a
group of trees has actually the name “... forest”? I
always thought a forest would require more trees.<br>
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<div>Either one of us is completely misunderstanding what
the other wrote or you're quibbling about the size of a
group.<br>
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<div>Sherwood Forest is 450 acres of trees. It is a nature
reserve and so it is not used for forestry (aka logging).
There may<br>
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<div>be occasional felling of diseased trees but it is not
systematically logged on a wide scale.<br>
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<div>This is why landuse=forest is problematical. Sherwood
Forest is not land used for forestry, but it is called
Sherwood<br>
Forest so landuse=forest may seem like the correct tag to
use (because it says "forest").<br>
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<div>That's why abandoning landuse=forest in favour of
landcover=trees or landuse=forestry (as appropriate) is a
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<div>idea. I'll also add that I don't think landcover=trees
should be used in combination with landuse=forestry
because what<br>
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<div>is currently on land used for forestry may not be trees
but saplings or stumps.<br>
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I am coming around to this way of tagging.<br>
Been looking at places tagged landuse=forest around me... <br>
Some are forestry (yea!) <br>
Some are parks .. <br>
Some are nature reserves... (some of these are errors due to LPI map
colours ... very similar from forestry to reserve. And yes, LPI is
legally allowed in OSM) <br>
Some are no more trees ... history .. though I have found one that
is forestry .. just with the trees harvested and gone, they'll be
back. <br>
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