[Tagging] Landcover... not again?....!

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 6 May 2022, at 09:40, Peter Elderson <pelderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> natural=scrub works fine for scrub within all kinds of land uses.


scrub is about unused land (it may occur in smaller patches within some land generally in use, but when there are bigger areas of scrub I would not think the land is actually used)


> 
> natural=grassland works fine for grassy areas within different land uses.


grassland is a term for a landform, I thought, not a native speaker here, but using it for any grass covered area seems strange, or not?

Wikipedia has a more inclusive definition than this, comprising quite different areas, and including natural grasslands, semi-natural grasslands, and agricultural grasslands.

The original interpretation in the landuse proposal for the natural tag was as a system for natural features and toponyms referring to natural features, and for named features similar to how place is used for cultural features. While this was mostly consistent with the 2010 use of tags, in the meantime it has been partly diluted because of more landcover tagging in natural, like natural=mud sand bare_rock. Still a very significant subset of natural is referring to distinct features.

Cheers Martin 
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