[Tagging] Hunting area tagging

[Marc Gemis]

I wonder whether a simple hunting=yes is sufficient.
In Belgium you can only hunt for a limited period of the year and even
within that period there are sub-periods for different animals.
Hunting in Flanders is often on fields and meadows, but you have to
stay at least 150m (AFAIK) away from the houses. That means the area
for which hunting=yes holds, is often a subarea of a larger landuse.
Furthermore you need a permit, for which you have to pass an exam.

If one would create a map with all hunting=yes areas, would a
non-Belgian know all those limitations ? Do we have to map them
explicitly ?

As for the nature protection aspect: in some areas they just release
animals that were raised in captivity a short period before the
hunting season starts. Not much protection going on there.

m

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Lauri Kytömaa <lkytomaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> if the forest and the hunting area are known under different names, under which tag would you put which name?
>
> Two points for the whole discussion thread:
>
> 1) Forest areas (with the tag, that is) can be subdivided for various
> attributes, like deciduous/coniferous/last_full_chop=* etc. Users
> could debate for months when it is appropriate or isn't, but they are
> already.
>
> 2) Areas where hunting is allowed (to some) are not usually directly
> tied to the edges of the landuse=forest ways, even if the forest
> polygon hasn't been subdivided. Hunting (as in the general meaning
> "somebody shoots animals") isn't limited to forests.
>
>
> --
> alv
>
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