[Tagging] Forest vs Wood

Richard Z. ricoz.osm at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 20:58:54 UTC 2014


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 06:45:30PM +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry to raise this issue again but it really does need resolving:
> 
> * for ensuring good data; and
> * to prevent forest and wood being rendered as the same thing [1]
> 
> Currently the descriptions in the green box on the right of the wiki page
> (and thus those that get picked up by taginfo and other software) are:
> 
> Wood: Woodland with no forestry
> Forest: Managed woodland or woodland plantation.
> 
> In my eyes this is pretty clear. What am I missing / why does there seem to
> be so much confusion?

landuse/landcover/natural need resolving so I would not spend too much 
energy on partial improvements of it.

Richard



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