[talk-au] natural=wood why?

[Franc Carter]

Yes, the same sort of thought occurred to me - I have added natural=wood to
parts of sydney - then hit really large bit
and though 'hmm' and put it in the two hard basket. I had previously come
across 'OSDM' data for australia that had
some road, some rail, bodies of water etc - it may have national parks as
well. When I discussed this on osm-talk it
was pointed out that at least the road network on this database is not
accurate enough for routing, but that it may be
ok for a 'first pass' of other things. The data was in .shp files and didn't
seem that hard to import

I'll hunt up the location of the data when I am back home if there is some
interest.

cheers

On 8/13/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> Without going overboard, or creating anything too controlling, it would be
> nice to slowly add standards to the tagging page for other types of data.
>
> The area I live in is nearly all farmland with the occasional area of
> wooded land. I've marked these out as areas with natural=wood and they look
> really nice on the map, nice color and texture. But I am starting think why?
> For what purpose? If I scan left another 10 k's, I hit the Great Dividing
> Range and it is virtually all forest.
>
> What are we planning to do about that? Are we going to mark out huge areas
> of forest accross the ranges with 'natural=wood', 'layer=-4'? If not, then
> what is the point of marking out small 'easy' sections of woods?
>
> What is our actual reason for marking the wooded areas?
> What are the alternatives?
>
> Most maps of the scale we are working on map functional areas rather than
> vegetation type, so is what we really want marked on the map in green,
> National Park, Nature Reserve and State Forests?
>
> It ...may... be possible to get hold of this data and get permission to
> add it to OSM. We could do this in bulk.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Brent.
>
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Franc
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