[Tagging] Forest parcel with other landcover (scrub, scree…): how to map?
Mateusz Konieczny
matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Wed Jan 23 06:52:08 UTC 2019
Jan 23, 2019, 4:49 AM by 61sundowner at gmail.com:
> On 23/01/19 07:37, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
>
>> Jan 21, 2019, 12:03 AM by >> 61sundowner at gmail.com <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>>> :
>>
>>> The end to this madness is for renders to recognise that the landuse=forest needs to be rendered differently from natural=wood.
>>> The essential difference between the two is that landuse must have some human benefit, a produce, and a clear way of doing that is to add the rendering of a axe to the tree.
>>>
>>
>> (1) in a typical rendering this distinction is completely unimportant
>> or at least not worth different rendering
>>
>> (2) other people have different mismatching ideas what is the
>> "real" difference between natural=wood and landuse=forest
>>
>> (3) there is no consistent difference in how natural=wood and landuse=forest are used
>> by mappers
>>
>
> If the is no difference between the two then there will be no problem depreciating landuse=forest.
>
First of all: "there many, many opinions how natural=wood and landuse=forest differ and
some people think that his makes distinction between this tags useless" is not the same as
"there is no difference".
And landuse=forest is used more than three million times
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=forest <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=forest>
> If there is no produce than it is not landuse=forestry.
>
>
Note that many are not using "forestry" to mean "using forest toproduce wood".
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestry <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestry> for an example.
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