[Tagging] Forestry/logging

[Warin]

Landcover=wood (or the presently OSM popular 'natural=wood')applies to 
trees of all types, ages, planting densities and heights.
So there are some sub tags that can be used under that land cover.

Harvesting operations are a function of land use (forestry or farm) and 
could be a sub tag under these land uses.

There are some who say that the source tag should not be used, they want 
to rely on the changeset comments, these do carry a date.
Personally I prefer using the source tag.

On 10-Apr-17 04:32 PM, Vao Matua wrote:
> Clifford,
>
> You are correct, landuse is different from landcover.
> I assume you are tagging farmland as landuse, not landcover.
> The problem with landcover is that the currency and consistency of the 
> source information is critical and is very difficult in OSM.
> The OSM tagging for landcover should have two additional *required* 
> tags: "source=" and "source:date=" .
>
> Regards,
>
> Emmor
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Clifford Snow 
> <clifford at snowandsnow.us <mailto:clifford at snowandsnow.us>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Vao Matua <vaomatua at gmail.com
>     <mailto:vaomatua at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         This is an interesting discussion. As a tree farmer and
>         professional forester I am offended by the suggestion that a
>         harvested area is different landuse from areas that are in
>         other stages of forest growth.
>         I understand the need to avoid current logging operations, but
>         I would say that crowd sourced mapping is not the place to get
>         that information. There are so many basic features missing
>         from OSM, spending effort to collect vegetative landcover
>         seems like a lower need, especially considering the fact that
>         in a relatively short period of time the vegetative signature
>         will be different.
>
>
>     Palolo,
>     Thank you for your input. If I understand you, landuse=forest is
>     what the land is being used for while landcover is what's there.
>     To get a Warin's point, if you want to know if the area was
>     clearcut recently, we should be using landcover.
>
>     We do have a lot of features that need added to OSM. But I always
>     encourage new mappers to map what they like. Currently I have been
>     adding farmland to my county. It helps tell the counties story.
>     Farmland is just part of the story, a big part of the county is
>     also logging. Right now I'm reluctant to just start adding
>     forested areas until I learn more. Any suggestions on how we
>     should be mapping forested areas would be appreciated.
>
>     Best,
>     Clifford
>
>
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