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<br />13. Jun 2018 07:47 by <a href="mailto:marc.gemis@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">marc.gemis@gmail.com</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">won't work, see e.g.<br /><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=waasmunster#map=16/51.1215/4.0932&layers=N" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=waasmunster#map=16/51.1215/4.0932&layers=N</a><br />that's not a forest, that are a lot of private gardens with trees in it.<br /></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I opened <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1424854" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1424854</a> - somebody included also areas <br /></p><p>without trees.<br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">A forest is a place where you can walk, ride, cycle. Not someones<br />private backyard.</blockquote><p><br /></p><p>So you want to count tree-covered areas that are not private? (including ones in private backyards).</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that it is not doable with current OSM data (access=private is extremely rarely</p><p>tagged on private areas) though excluding areas tagged also as landuse=residential</p><p>may be a good approximation.<br /></p><p> <br /></p><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">Our government talks often about there is so many square meter of<br />forest in Belgium.<br />It's not sufficient to subtract all small areas, you need to subtract<br />somehow everything that is not a forest (see above)</blockquote><p><br /></p><p>So do you want to exclude private forests or something else? <br /></p> </body>
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