[Tagging] Deprecation of landuse=forest

[Warin]

On 20/4/21 4:30 am, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
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> Apr 19, 2021, 10:41 by 61sundowner at gmail.com:
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>     To me landuse=forest is for the human use of the land .. it does
>     not say 'here be trees'.
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> Note that in general mismatches how this tag is actually used
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>     So the landuse does not change where trees have been havested, it
>     remains the same landuse.
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> If this areas will be replanted soon (or trees regrow naturally) for 
> pragmatic reasons it would
> make sense to do it anyway.
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> Only in areas with many local mappers focusing on their area it
> would make sense to delete (parts of) forest just to recreate it 
> months/year later.
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So there is no way to tag an "area used for timber production, 
regardless of current tree cover".


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