[Tagging] Deprecation of landuse=forest

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 20, 2021, 10:53 by 61sundowner at gmail.com:

> On 19/4/21 6:51 pm, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> sent from a phone
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>>> On 19 Apr 2021, at 10:45, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Typical in your area. In my area * State Forest are designated areas that can and do include areas without trees (e.g. camp grounds, huts, buildings, water bodies,  etc).
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>> which clearly shows that landuse=forest is not the tag for these. It is a tag for areas where trees grow. No trees no tag
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> The tag landuse=military can have many different land covers - buildings, lakes, wood, sand dunes, rock, sea.
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+1

> The tag landuse=university can have many different land covers - buildings, lakes, wood, grass.
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Note that it is barely used https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org//search?q=landuse%3Duniversity

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> The tag for where trees grow is natural=wood.
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And landuse=forest that despite key name is not actually used for tagging landuse
(yes it is confusing - see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Counterintuitive_key_names 
for more documented cases)

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>>> These are all part of the area used to produce timber and as a landuse the best fit is landuse=forest so far.
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>> it is not. We cannot all have our own definitions for everything, we must agree on the same meaning of tags so that the data is useful.
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> What tag do you use for an area used for timber production?
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I do not tag such areas, mostly because it is quite fuzzy and I think
that tagging tree-covered areas and industrial areas is good enough and
bundling them together is not really useful.

(though if there would be a good way to tag this without causing verifiability
issues I would be fine with others mapping it)

> Or do they simply not exist?
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I see some minor use of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Alanduse%3Dforestry
and recent proposal for forest compartments is kind of related
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