[talk-au] Inappropriate tagged areas

[Ben Kelley]

Hi.

I thought natural=wood was for trees that had not been planted for the
purpose of forestry.

landuse=forest is where they were planted for forestry.

Use is not consistent. (If you harvest the natural trees, which one is it?)
See the Forest page on the wiki, but landcover=trees seems incorrect.

  - Ben.
On Dec 17, 2015 8:25 AM, "Warin" <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi ...
> I'm using LPI to tag National Park and State Forest boundaries and came
> across some large "Inappropriately tagged areas".
> Way 25968044tagged as Barrington Tops National Park, this area includes
> National Parks, State Conservation Areas, State Forests.
> Way 232137774 tagged as Myall State Forest, this area includes National
> Parks, State Conservation Areas, State Forests.
> Way169174227tagged as Blue Mountains National Park, this area includes
> National Parks, State Conservation Areas, State Forests.
>
> They don't have a source, I have made comments on the first 2 changesets-
> no response so far.
>
> They appear to be tracing forest areas from satellite imagery, as such I
> think they would be best tagged as "landcover=trees, source=imagery" with
> no name nor other identifying tags. They are all much much larger than
> their name would suggest.
>
> The last one already has an encompassingRelation: 3550886 that has tag
> 'natural=wood'. At least some of that area is State Forest that has pine
> trees .. As an Ozie I don't call them 'natural' ... it is hair splitting
> but I'd rather use 'landcover=trees'. :-)
>
> The first one carries a tag "layer=-5", I assume this is to suppress its
> rendering or at least allow any other tagged there to over write it. I am
> tempted to use the same tagging method on all three ways.
>
> Comments please?
>
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