[Tagging] Forest vs Wood

[John Sturdy]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Guertin <andrew.guertin at uvm.edu> wrote:

> landcover=forest
>         anywhere there's trees on the ground

This doesn't agree with my (British English) understanding of the
terms; a wood can be small, but a forest is always large.  "Small" and
"large" being loosely defined, but for something to be called "forest"
I'd expect it to be many times larger than a typical farm field.
Trying to pin down my intuition on it: a forest would be big enough to
have one or more villages within its boundaries.   However, the term
"woodland" can be used at any scale, I think.

__John