[Tagging] Forest vs Wood

[Andrew Guertin]

On 09/24/2014 01:10 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 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
>>
> 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)

Sure, landcover=trees does seem better.

I wrote that out because it had been bouncing around in my head for a 
while, but I hadn't put much research into it. I'm not surprised people 
have pointed out problems with it (though I still think it's a good 
starting point and an improved version would be a good way to fix our 
problems).

--Andrew