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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 4, 2021, 08:47 by mail@jeroenhoek.nl:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>At nearly 30.000 uses for landcover=grass and 160.000 for<br></div><div>landcover=trees, can rendering in Carto be on the table by this point?<br></div></blockquote><div>Has anything substantially changed since last time that it was discussed?<br></div><div><br></div><div>landcover proposal was drafted in 2010 and discussed multiple times, never went through a vote.<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>It was discussed many, many, many times with long discussions repeating exactly<br></div><div>the same things.<br></div><div><br></div><div>over 81% of landcover=trees are in Paraguay (where some organized mapping activity<br></div><div>centered around landcover=trees happened)<br></div><div>130,923 out of 161,696 total uses<br></div><div>10145 uses of landcover=trees in Paraguay are on nodes<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Luu">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Luu</a> landcover=trees in Paraguay count<br></div><div><a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Lux">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Lux</a> landcover=trees total count<br></div><div><a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Luv">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Luv</a> landcover=trees nodes in Paraguay<br></div><div><br></div><div>In contrast, natural=wood is used widely, over 6 million times in all areas of the globe.<br></div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/natural=wood/landcover=trees">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/natural=wood/landcover=trees</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>landuse=forest is also used widely for that purpose, with over 4 million uses.<br></div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/landuse=forest/landcover=trees">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/landuse=forest/landcover=trees</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>See also<br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2548">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2548</a><br></div><div>rejection of rendering in OSM Carto ( together with landcover=grass, due to duplicating far<br></div><div>more popular tagging schemes )<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://josm.openstreetmap.de/browser/josm/trunk/data/validator/ignoretags.cfg?rev=11949">https://josm.openstreetmap.de/browser/josm/trunk/data/validator/ignoretags.cfg?rev=11949</a><br></div><div>("ignore landcover=grass and landcover=trees" - adding landcover=grass and landcover=trees<br></div><div>to known popular tags that were decided to not be included in presets)<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4272">https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4272</a><br></div><div>rejecting support in iD due to duplicating far more popular tagging schemes<br></div> </body>
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