[HOT] The tag landuse = clearing

[Warin]

Hi,


The tag “landuse=clearing” was extensively used in Costa Rica by 
#hotosm-task-417 #YouthMappers #TexasTech during November 2017, mapping 
around Parque Nacional Coicovado in Costa Rica.

Unfortunately this tag is not documented on the OSM wiki, I have started 
to document what I think it is and looks like from some satellite imagery.


The proposal page to document the possible tag can be found here 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landcover%3Dclearing.

There are several suggestions as to how to map these things better- with 
more information and some should result with rendering on maps.


However, my questions are;

Do HOT use the tag at all for there own purposes?

Will there be any problems and/or objections to changing 
‘landuse=clearing’ to “landcover=clearing” ?


Thanks in advance for any thoughts on the subject.



PS I note that many of these ways introduced have touching rings and 
duplicate segments. I have edited many of them so they now don’t 
generate errors on OSMinspector see 
https://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=areas&lon=-83.46332&lat=8.53010&zoom=11 
<https://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=areas&lon=-83.46332&lat=8.53010&zoom=11> 


I have not touched the north eastern coastal area so you can see the 
problems.

PPS I am motivated to keep land cover things out of the land use key, 
hence my personal interest in this tag.



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