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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>
<p>Sergio</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-01-23 01:52, Sergio Manzi
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Sergio</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-01-23 01:00, Peter Elderson
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forests could be preferably tagged as natural=wood ...<br>
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