[Tagging] Development of Tag Replacements (was: Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush)

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 4, 2021, 08:47 by mail at jeroenhoek.nl:

> At nearly 30.000 uses for landcover=grass and 160.000 for
> landcover=trees, can rendering in Carto be on the table by this point?
>
Has anything substantially changed since last time that it was discussed?

landcover proposal was drafted in 2010 and discussed multiple times, never went through a vote.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover

It was discussed many, many, many times with long discussions repeating exactly
the same things.

over 81% of landcover=trees are in Paraguay (where some organized mapping activity
centered around landcover=trees happened)
130,923 out of 161,696 total uses
10145 uses of landcover=trees in Paraguay are on nodes

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Luu landcover=trees in Paraguay count
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Lux landcover=trees total count
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Luv landcover=trees nodes in Paraguay

In contrast, natural=wood is used widely, over 6 million times in all areas of the globe.
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/natural=wood/landcover=trees

landuse=forest is also used widely for that purpose, with over 4 million uses.
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/landuse=forest/landcover=trees

See also
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2548
rejection of rendering in OSM Carto ( together with landcover=grass, due to duplicating far
more popular tagging schemes )

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/browser/josm/trunk/data/validator/ignoretags.cfg?rev=11949
("ignore landcover=grass and landcover=trees" - adding landcover=grass and landcover=trees
to known popular tags that were decided to not be included in presets)

https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4272
rejecting support in iD due to duplicating far more popular tagging schemes
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