[Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

[Joel Holdsworth]

>         This whole discussion going back more than a year ago has
> been dominated by very European concepts of what is a forest.

I think that's the problem.

In europe (and for that matter the whole of OSM) forest == trees. Every
square foot of a landuse=forest area should be covered in trees.

Here in the US, there is a thing called a US Nation Forest which is an
administrative area, which has a lot of trees in it, but also scrub,
grass, rivers, bare rock etc.

The main issue is that we need to separate the administrative border
from the land-cover, so that land-cover drawing is not prevented.

Making boundary=protected_area render similarly to the outline of
leisure=natural_park would be a good starting point, and that should be
a simple mod to make.

Joel