[Tagging] landuse=logging
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 06:44:55 UTC 2017
No worries. I'm still thinking about it.
The English language is a difficulty as the various dialects drift
apart. Tending away from crop towards produce .. as that term
encompasses more - eg fish, oysters.
On 10-Jan-17 05:23 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> Oops. I see it was Warin that introduced crop=timber.
>
> A good choice of terms in any case.
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Dave Swarthout
> <daveswarthout at gmail.com <mailto:daveswarthout at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> @warin,
>
> This is another laughable instance of how terminology we consider
> normal is so different across the ocean. To Americans timber
> refers to the standing trees in a forest. Timber is felled and cut
> into lumber. We might describe an area as being "heavily timbered"
> or having "standing timber". One would never substitute the word
> lumber for timber in either of those phrases. A place that was
> "heavily lumbered" would imply that the trees had been felled,
> removed, and cut up into boards which we call lumber.
>
> In this particular case these differences can be handily
> side-stepped because John Willis offers the use of crop=timber,
> which works to clarify the terminology without offending anyone
> while still being entirely correct.
>
> > crop=timber
> > crop=rubber
> +1
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:25 AM, John Willis <johnw at mac.com
> <mailto:johnw at mac.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 10, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > There are other things produced by forestry ...
> > maple syrup for Canadians
> > rubber from rubber trees
> > various oils (tea tree oil, eucalyptus oil)
> > as well as timber.
> >
> > From the crop wiki I think this can be an additional tag for
> landuse=forest ...
> > crop=timber
> > crop=rubber
> > etc.
>
> +1
>
>
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