[Talk-GB] Mapping of Kielder Forest(s)

[James Derrick]

Hi Tom,

On 02/09/2021 22:19, Tom Crocker wrote:
> So, specifically in Kielder, I would change the existing 
> landuse=forest areas to natural=wood. Add named areas of forest with 
> landuse=forest but also add cutlines between the natural=wood areas 
> when there's a narrow, relatively consistent gap - there's quite a lot 
> of these in Kielder. 
After older debates, the tagging practice has been Approach 3 as in 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Forest

This distinguishes natural=wood from landuse=forest in a similar way to 
wild animals and cattle (analogy mugged from IT sysadmin VMs).


Most of Kielder consists of dense blocks of mechanically planted lines 
of leaf_type=needleleaved managed for agri-business, so are (almost) all 
tagged as landuse=forest.

After re-reading the expanded wiki, managed=yes, operator='Forestry 
England' might be useful additions, as well as the ongoing suggestion to 
add extra landuse=forestry to encompass multiple areas of 
landuse=forest, or relations.

I'd suggest reserving natural=wood for the Kielder areas (typically 
around visitor sight lines) with 'natural' broad leaf species which 
aren't cut for profit.


> Add areas of grass, heath, wetland, etc elsewhere (James, I don't know 
> if you're aware of JOSM's balloon tool which makes this pretty easy?).

That process was started, but there's a lot of Kielder...

A JOSM balloon tool is news to me, but after some poking around, do you 
mean the plug-in ShrinkWrap perhaps?

     https://github.com/ubipo/shrinkwrap

Ooh! Shiny! Thanks! :-)

Much of Kielder isn't bounded so might need some tweaks, but Shinkwrap 
looks exceptionally useful for general landcover - add boundary 
barrier=*, then click to generate an internal landuse=* without having 
to manually trace the area with Follow.

Signing off now to try a new toy...


James
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