[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - boundary=forestry(_compartment) relations (Was "Feature Proposal - RFC - boundary=forest(_compartment) relations")

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 13 Feb 2021, at 19:11, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> While the designation of purpose - land use - does follow cadastre, land ownership is also less than informative.


while actual landuse and designated landuse / zoning will often be the same, it is not necessarily the case and I believe it is important to point out that landuse in OpenStreetMap is about the actual use of land, not about the designation.

The kind of “forest” areas you are describing, which are designated as forests but can contain villages, scree, tundra, lakes etc., are in my view something that should be covered by a kind of boundary (like protected area), and are not to be confused with forests (ecosystem, tree covered). If you’re in a clearing/glade you are not in a forest (depending on the scale you look at it, and legally, for the kind of forest areas you describe, you might be). We should be able to make these distinctions and provide the information about all these entities (actual cover, and eventually actual use and legal designation, as far as it can be verified)

Cheers Martin