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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 7, 2021, 12:25 by stefan.tauner@gmx.at:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 11:58:24 +0100 (CET)<br></div><div>Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>OSM Wiki is describing actually existing tagging<br></div><div>scheme not some theorethical ideal without this tags.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If the OSM wiki only describes actual usage then please delete<br></div><div>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Names_are_not_for_descriptions<br></div><div>because it is clearly what many mappers like to do.<br></div></blockquote><div>landuse=forest is commonly accepted mapping<br></div><div>removing it on encountering just because it is <br></div><div>present (and replacing it with say landcover=trees)<br></div><div>it is not accepted and would not be considered as a good idea<br></div><div>in general<br></div><div>large scale edits doing this would be reverted<br></div><div><br></div><div>using names for descriptions is not a commonly accepted mapping<br></div><div>removing it on encountering is accepted and encouraged<br></div><div>large scale edits doing this are a welcome cleanup<br></div> </body>
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