<div><div dir="auto">Oh, and we shouldn’t forget leaf_type=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leaf_type%3Dleafless" title="Tag:leaf type=leafless" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(238,238,255);font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:14px">leafless</a></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is used for cactus and other succulents, and it’s currently rendered by the Openstreetmap-Carto style, for wood and forest.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Leaf_cycle is rendered by the Alternative-Colors style made by Christoph, if you want to see an example of how this can look: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="http://blog.imagico.de/differentiated-rendering-of-woodland-in-maps/">http://blog.imagico.de/differentiated-rendering-of-woodland-in-maps/</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto">And</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="http://blog.imagico.de/more-on-vegetation-rendering-in-openstreetmap-maps/">http://blog.imagico.de/more-on-vegetation-rendering-in-openstreetmap-maps/</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:10 AM Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> the only way I see in the Wiki is to use the leaf_type=* tag <br><br>You can also use leaf_cycle= to tag deciduous vs evergreen, and also semi-deciduous, semi-evergreen and mixed:<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:leaf_cycle" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:leaf_cycle</a><br><br>This accounts for most types of woodland, along with leaf type. The rest can be inferred from latitude (eg forest/wood in the tropics is clearly tropical) and elevation (montane vs lowland rainforest) which is readily available information. <br><br>Probably there is no need for mappers to tag elevation and latitude-related distinctions.<br><br>The one thing that’s missing is a tag for the density of the main vegetation type; is it a dense canopy of trees, or dense scrubland, verses more widely spaced. <br><br>And there isn’t a way to tag a grassland with scattered shrubs or trees, probably because this is not common in Northern Europe.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:58 AM Sergio Manzi <<a href="mailto:smz@smz.it" target="_blank">smz@smz.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Well, sorry, obviously I did an editing mistake and the "<i>Wikipedia
defines 6 types of forest</i>" phrase jumped up in the wrong
place: it should be just above the dotted list of forest types...</p>
<p>Sorry about the confusion...</p></div><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p>Sergio</p>
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<div class="m_-4810779232092559536m_7240011336413811464moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-01-23 01:52, Sergio Manzi
wrote:<br>
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<p>Only about the cited point (<i>tagging natural forests as
natural=wood</i>), I think a natural forest should be tagged
as natural=forest (<i>quite logically, I would say...</i>),
while natural=wood should be reserved for "small forests" (<i>which
is one of the possible meaning of "wood" in English, if I'm
not mistaken</i>).<br>
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<p>Also please consider that "forest" is very generic, and we
could be willing to more exactly define which kind of forest we
are tagging (<i>and eventually have it rendered accordingly</i>).</p>
<p>To this extent the only way I see in the Wiki is to use the
leaf_type=* tag (<i>and only"broadleaved", "needleleaved" and
"mixed" are defined as possible values</i>).Wikipedia defines
6 types of forest:</p>
<p>But to me a forest is not just "a lot of trees", but an entire
ecosystem dominated by trees. And those ecosystems can be very
different between different continents and latitudes.</p>
<ul>
<li>Temperate needleleaf</li>
<li>Temperate broadleaf and mixed</li>
<li>Tropical moist</li>
<li>Tropical dry</li>
<li>Sparse trees and parkland</li>
<li>Forest plantations<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>I think we should be (somehow) able to tag those types.</p>
<p>Please also check the sixth forest type described in Wikipedia
(<i>Forest plantations</i>): I think it coincide with the
"forestry" concept we are talking about in the thread (<i>landuse=forestry,
or whatever...</i>).<br>
</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Sergio</p>
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<div class="m_-4810779232092559536m_7240011336413811464moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-01-23 01:00, Peter Elderson
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Natural
forests could be preferably tagged as natural=wood ...<br>
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