[Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Not everything in a national forest is covered by trees, yet the
>> standard way of tagging one is landuse=forest on an area.
>
> some tag it like this but this is entirely wrong.
> National forest defines the ownership but has nothing to do with the
> landcover.

That's why it's landuse=forest, not landcover=forest. A
landuse=residential area isn't all houses (it includes yards,
driveways, garages, streets, sidewalks) and a landuse=forest area
isn't all trees.