[Tagging] Deprecation of landuse=forest (was: Feature Proposal - RFC - boundary=forest(_compartment) relations)

[Bert -Araali- Van Opstal]

> the size and uniformity of landuse zone/areas depends on the scale you are looking at it. Let’s not confuse zoning (prescriptive landuse as commonly defined by the government) with actual landuse (what we map with landuse)
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> Cheers Martin
Very true, happy you mention and confirm it. However, that is not how it 
is used by many mappers. We see whole villages and cities mapped as 
landuse=residential, not a big deal since you can easily define inner 
areas with different landuse, perfectly viable and correct although 
complex due to growing number of inner areas when we go into more detail.

It becomes different however when the landuse tag is used on a macro 
scale to map areas which refer to the "management" of the area, not the 
actual landuse. This is the case for f.i. refugee camps (very large in 
many cases with a variety of landuses inside them), mapped and tagged as 
landuse=residential, and for our case here landuse=forest. Creating 
inner areas with different landuse explicitly excludes them from the 
management philosophy. The only viable solution for that seems to me a 
boundary.
Correct me if I am wrong, but also in countries where the landuse=forest 
is heavily used, is it mapped on areas that are no longer covered with 
trees, the trees are cut or as in the proposal areas with ponds, some 
agriculural use, some small villages ? All of those are managed by the 
forestry department, is it not to harvest and economically use the 
forest, then to protect (which is a management strategy) the natural 
remaining tree stands, open areas, water features, wildlife grazing or 
feeding grass covered or scrub land etc... as they are all part of the 
forest ecosystem and necessary to sustain the forest, make it 
economically viable on the long term.

Greetings,

Bert Araali


On 13/04/2021 10:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 12 Apr 2021, at 19:08, Bert -Araali- Van Opstal <bert.araali.afritastic at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In countries where most of the land is in uniform "landuse" zones
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> the size and uniformity of landuse zone/areas depends on the scale you are looking at it. Let’s not confuse zoning (prescriptive landuse as commonly defined by the government) with actual landuse (what we map with landuse)
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> Cheers Martin
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