[Tagging] Removal of "amenity" from OSM tagging

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-05-28 8:28 GMT+02:00 johnw <johnw at mac.com>:

> How about:
>
> Forest=natural ?
>
>
> isn’t that natural=wood?
>
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> or forest=man_made ? [=plantation or somesuch term for a human-planted
> forest].
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> A forest is a man-altered area, so i believe “forest” already implies
> man-used. But it is not man_made (as a building is), as the forest is not a
> non-building structure.
>
>

I believe the (not so uncommon amongst OSM mappers) reading of "natural" as
tag for everything related to nature and man_made for all kind of stuff
made by mankind is not really helpful. The way these are integrated into
the tagging scheme is slightly different, they both cover only a subset of
the aforementioned, namely "natural" covers "natural geographic features"
like beaches, swamps, bays, peaks, mountain passes, single trees, springs,
brush, heath, boulders, ... with a few (more recent) exceptions like "mud"
and "sand" (which actually overlap with other like beach and wetland and
which are landcovers / materials / surfaces rather than "features"), while
"man_made" covers technical structures and facilities (like factories,
chimneys, flagpoles, lighthouses, silos, ...).

Btw.: a forest can or cannot be a man altered area, typically it now is in
many parts of the world and once wasn't.

Cheers,
Martin
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