<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">sent from a phone</div><div><br>On 26. Oct 2017, at 23:48, Daniel Koć <<a href="mailto:daniel@xn--ko-wla.pl">daniel@koć.pl</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>If you mean standard tile layer (osm-carto), landcover=* tag is far from being accepted:</span><br><span></span><br><span><span><a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2548#issuecomment-330002296">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2548#issuecomment-330002296</a></span></span></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>most prominent argument seems to be waiting for more usage:</div><div>„</div><div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Other tags are used to indicate areas with trees 700x more frequently than landcover=trees</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is not be our aim to push new tags against existing ones in pursuit of more systematic key semantics</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Current tagging practices for areas with trees are messy, with different people having different views on what the tags mean. This limits what you can infer from the data.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">this switch would have a huge impact on many map styles</span></li></ul><div>„</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Martin </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>