[Tagging] new Key proposal: landcover

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
>
still it isn't at all a forest. landuse forest is a documented tag for
forests and forests means an area with trees.
all the other areas you will find in a national forest have well defined
tags natural/landuse=wood,glacier,heat,meadow,shrub ....
just because google,yahoo,garmin draws national forests in green we
shouldn't make the same stupid mistake in osm



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