[Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 17 August 2015, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> I removed the landuse=forest from the national forest relations in
> Utah: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33392465.

To find further occurances you can use:

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/aZs

You will also see there that many national forests are mapped as 
multiple separate areas each with tags and the same name - like

http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2658152
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/30268500
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/30268493

It would be a good idea to consolidate those into one multipolygon 
relation so someone searching for a national forest for example will 
find the whole forest and not only the largest subarea.

> The map will look very white :( but at least it's not wrong anymore.

It will also encourage mapping of actual forested areas as well as other 
vegetation and natural features.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/