[Tagging] The endless debate about "landcover" as a top-level tag (was: Re: British term for municipal greenery?)

Johnparis okosm at johnfreed.com
Wed Jun 6 19:16:47 UTC 2018


landuse=forestry seems a logical choice.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018, 17:38 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com>
wrote:

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> 6. Jun 2018 17:10 by kevin.b.kenny+osm at gmail.com:
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> So we have available to us:
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> landcover=trees - seldom used, but available and unambiguous
> natural=wood - controversial, what qualifies a woodland as being
> 'natural?' There's next to no land anywhere on the planet that has not been
> managed by humans in some way.
> landuse=forest - asserted to be synonymous with landcover=trees, but has a
> natural-language meaning that it designates a forestry land use.
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>  landuse=forest was burned for purposes of tagging forestry land use - of
> anyone cares about it they should use a new tag (that probably needs to be
> invented).
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> boundary=protected_area - I suppose, but sorting out 'this is protected
> for forestry' requires parsing not only protect_class but also the
> natural-language 'protection_title' or other nonstandard tagging.
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>  Using this tag to mark forestry areas seems to be quite tortured
> interpretation.
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> leisure=nature_reserve - At least this one renders, and a lot of things
> are nature reserves. Including working forests, maybe, I suppose, but this
> smells of tagging for the renderer.
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> Nature reserves of for, well, nature reserves that are not limited to
> forest.
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> That may be in some regions limited to forestry areas but it would be a
> local quirk.
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> Nothing really fits "This land is used for production of forest products"
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> So be tag should be invented by someone who cares about it.
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