[Tagging] Forest vs Wood

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-09-24 18:22 GMT+02:00 John Sturdy <jcg.sturdy at gmail.com>:

> 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.



+1
a wood can be relatively small (but also has a minimum size, just a row of
trees will most likely not be a wood), but a forest has to be big in order
to develop the ecosystem it is.
I'd also like to point out that we aren't operating in a void when speaking
about landcover, there is already a proposal in the wiki and the key is in
use:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/landcover#values

please not ~10k trees vs. 11 forest (i.e. factor 1000)

cheers,
Martin
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