[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - landuse bush

Michael Patrick geodesy99 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 23:45:13 UTC 2021


> Landcover should then be added as a secondary tag to describe the
landcover (sort of on a broader scale).

Land Cover and Land Use, because of lots of reasons, are irreversibly
conflated in OSM. From a cartographic perspective ( i.e. rendering ) one or
the other should probably dominate, i.e. 'Countries of the World' vs.
individual trees along a street. Most cartographic systems accommodate the
mix by attaching a scale range to a particular feature set. The more
sophisticated ones also have a recursive hierarchy for areas which enable
assignment to practically infinite level of detail. One example is the
American Planning Association Land Based Classification Standards (LBCS),
which mostly deal with Land Use  https://www.planning.org/lbcs/ ... which
accommodates the messiness inderent in describing a bubble tea shop on a
concourse leased to by an airline in a airport terminal building run by
multi-state port authority on state land - and the artificial wetland with
paths built for run-off protection. There are similar ones for the
'natural' ( ugh ), call it 'biological' schemes that recurse down
continental ecological regions to individual species habitats.
( The 'natural' ugh is because there is a steadily increasing body of
evidence which suggests that even pre-agricultural human beings on every
continent have been altering the ecological landscape in major ways over
wide areas: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/3/522 - probably the only
chunk of 'natural' grass in the USA is https://www.nps.gov/tapr/index.htm
).
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