[Tagging] tagging single trees

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Mon Sep 6 21:26:07 BST 2010


On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:14 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Many people are tagging single trees, and usually use natural=tree for
> this. Now there are some voices on the German ML that say,
> natural=tree is reserved for "special" trees, and can therefore not be
> used for "ordinary" trees.
>
> I changed the wiki according to what I perceive actual usage, by
> changing "lone or significant" to "single". Unfortunately this is
> disputed at least by a few people.
>
> What are your opinions on that?

What's significant?  I've used natural=tree to map each of the trees
in a parking lot.  I figure each tree is significant to, for instance,
a blind person making their way through the parking lot, though I
wouldn't call any of the trees "special".



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