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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hey Elliot and all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for this notice, I think it is two separate issues. One is the use of the landuse=forest tag which has been discussed many times on many lists. The other is the rendering, I think this is ‘just’ a rendering issue as you can see where ‘meadow/grass/scrub’ coloring is ‘overlaid on-top’ of the forest/green, but the tree icon stays. Of course this can be ‘mitigated’ with relations, but that’s part of why I haven’t made progress in ‘my neck of the woods’. There’s actually some great momentum in several directions with our local meetup[1] so I might try to bring this up/make an effort to ‘clean-up’ forests here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>=Russ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[1] OSM-Colorado: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/">http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Elliott Plack [mailto:elliott.plack@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 09, 2016 11:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> stevea; kennykb@acm.org<br><b>Cc:</b> talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Looping back to this. I was looking at the town of Breckenridge, Colorado, and the whole things is covered by trees. On some renders, it is just a big green blob over the town. Here it is: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3724941">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3724941</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This is not right. "landuse" implies that the *land* has a *use*, which is whatever follows the = sign. I am fine if we want to say that landuse = timber production (or whatever) in general, but to render the tag landuse=forest with little trees or a bold green color does not give the right impression to the viewer. I think we should be encouraging users to trace the forests more precisely, rather than with big blocks.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Also I've noticed these Colorado imports are not being done by a user with an _import account, so it makes me wonder if these folks importing forest cover are following the import rules. These forests also have a national park tag, which they are not.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>