[Tagging] Forestry/logging

[Mattias Dalkvist]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Michael Patrick <geodesy99 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Have you considered using landsat-8 or sentinel-2 to get current landcover
>> using the QGIS plugin Semi-Automatic Classification? Landviewer [1] has a
>> nice interface for finding imagery that is cloud free and of recent
>> vintage? The learning curve to landcover classification is a bit steep,
>> but
>> it should be sufficiently accurate for remote areas.... Clifford
>>
>
> Scandanavian Forest services already have extremely detailed web services
> to provide this information ... '*Many users want to see how much forest
> there is in a specified area, estimate its average age, and to see which
> tree species it contains. SLU Forest Map contains spatial information with
> a high degree of detail over most of Sweden's forestland. SLU Forest Map is
> based on a combination of data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory
> <https://www.slu.se/en/Collaborative-Centres-and-Projects/the-swedish-national-forest-inventory/>
> and satellite data <https://saccess.lantmateriet.se/portal/saccess_se.htm>
> ...  SLU Forest Map is available free of charge as either a download or
> within our web based GIS application.*'
>
> ... including delivery to *MineCraft* ...  ('Examples of the use of open
> geodata in Minecraft
> <http://www.lantmateriet.se/en/Maps-and-geographic-information/Maps/oppna-data/hamta-filer-till-minecraft/anvandningsexempel/#>')
> ... now that's Open Data!
>
> My guess is the permits for future operations are online also. Such an
> inventory is is a non-trivial task
> <http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100691-forestry-by-way-of-aerial-imagery-remote-sensing-gis>,
> especially maintaining it.
>
> A better way to handle this would be a federated page that layers OSM and
> the forestry web service(s).
>
>
This is why I started to think about this, the data about forest harvest in
Sweden is under a CCBY like licence, but I wanted to get a better
understanding how to tag it before contacting them and see if we can import
the data in to OSM.

-- 
Mattias
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