[Tagging] Forestry/logging

[Tom Pfeifer]

There was a longer discussion about this topic in January this year already:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2017-January/thread.html

I think the conclusion was to keep landuse=forest and the dicussion forked into subtagging of crops.

On 07.04.2017 20:56, Mattias Dalkvist wrote:
> Hi
>
> What are the options for tagging forest areas that have been harvested/clear cut?
>
> Searching the wiki I found:
>
> landuse=logging many with logging=clearcutting or logging=selective_cutting or logging:start_date=*
> 18k uses mostly Eastern Europe  and Russia
>
> man_made=clearcut almost all with natural=scrub
> 2k uses mostly in Europe
>
>
> I don't like a new landuse, in my mind the area is still being used for forestry. man_made feels
> forces and perhaps it is a language/translation thing but I would never use scrub describe the young
> trees that grows after a clearcut.
>
> I think I'm after landuse=forest with some sub tag describing that the area was harvested and when.
>
> --
> Dalkvist