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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">the size and uniformity of landuse zone/areas depends on the scale you are looking at it. Let’s not confuse zoning (prescriptive landuse as commonly defined by the government) with actual landuse (what we map with landuse)
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Very true, happy you mention and confirm it. However, that is
not how it is used by many mappers. We see whole villages and
cities mapped as landuse=residential, not a big deal since you
can easily define inner areas with different landuse, perfectly
viable and correct although complex due to growing number of
inner areas when we go into more detail. <br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">It becomes different however when the
landuse tag is used on a macro scale to map areas which refer to
the "management" of the area, not the actual landuse. This is
the case for f.i. refugee camps (very large in many cases with a
variety of landuses inside them), mapped and tagged as
landuse=residential, and for our case here landuse=forest.
Creating inner areas with different landuse explicitly excludes
them from the management philosophy. The only viable solution
for that seems to me a boundary.<br>
Correct me if I am wrong, but also in countries where the
landuse=forest is heavily used, is it mapped on areas that are
no longer covered with trees, the trees are cut or as in the
proposal areas with ponds, some agriculural use, some small
villages ? All of those are managed by the forestry department,
is it not to harvest and economically use the forest, then to
protect (which is a management strategy) the natural remaining
tree stands, open areas, water features, wildlife grazing or
feeding grass covered or scrub land etc... as they are all part
of the forest ecosystem and necessary to sustain the forest,
make it economically viable on the long term.<br>
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Greetings,
<p>Bert Araali<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/04/2021 10:11, Martin
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 12 Apr 2021, at 19:08, Bert -Araali- Van Opstal <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bert.araali.afritastic@gmail.com"><bert.araali.afritastic@gmail.com></a> wrote:
In countries where most of the land is in uniform "landuse" zones
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the size and uniformity of landuse zone/areas depends on the scale you are looking at it. Let’s not confuse zoning (prescriptive landuse as commonly defined by the government) with actual landuse (what we map with landuse)
Cheers Martin
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