<div dir="ltr"><div>There are some tags documented on the Russian wiki page for key:wood [1] that describe various types of damage to wooded areas, one of which is wood:damage=burnt. I don't think it's been used much outside of Russia, but it seems fairly reasonable for areas likely to regenerate.</div><div><br></div><div>There have been other disaster tagging schemes that seem to be used on occasion, but they always seem to be listed under a particular disaster's wiki page rather than in some centralised location. <br></div><div><br></div><div>It would be nice to get some more consistency here, but I think the problem with this sort of tagging is that these tend to be the sort of thing that should be locally surveyed and updating OSM generally isn't the priority unless it is somehow part of a specific organisation's workflow.<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1]:
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Key:wood">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Key:wood</a>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 22:27, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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I have come across a German mapper who has used 'landuse=brownfield' to <br>
map some recently burnt areas in Australia.<br>
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I know this is not appropriate as it is not a land use, nor does it meet <br>
the OSM meaning of 'brownfield' in all situations.<br>
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Note: this is done in areas, no matter if it is a farm field, recreation <br>
ground, residential areas etc.<br>
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Tagging buildings and other OSM features is easy where they are wholly <br>
burnt using the life cycle tagging.<br>
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Should this data be entered in OSM?<br>
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Are flooded damaged areas mapped? Earthquake damaged areas?<br>
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If entered how should they be tagged?<br>
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The keys 'landuse', 'landcover', 'natural' don't look usable to me.<br>
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It may not be possible to use a sub key as the burnt areas do not <br>
conform to the presently mapped features.<br>
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If mapped then the tagging should be inclusive of other disasters <br>
(natural or not).<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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