[Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

[Paul Norman]

On 8/18/2015 1:58 PM, Ben Discoe wrote:
> As someone who has worked on protected areas in OSM globally, it has
> always been obvious that the "landuse" tags and the "boundary" tags
> serve clear and different purposes.
> US "National Forests" are boundaries around land which contain many
> uses(*), and landuse=forest is only one of the uses.
> If i find that any area is marked as "landuse=forest" when it does not
> actually contain all forest, i fix it, re-mapping the areas which
> actually contain forest as landuse=forest (or natural=wood, as
> appropriate).
> Often, this is very labor-intensive.  I have done this across many
> national parks globally, e.g. Ethiopia, Panama and India.

Yes, I've been slowly doing doing this in Washington, creating new 
polygons. I should probably be less of a perfectionist about the exact 
forest edges, as there's no existing data, it's a remote area, there's 
few other features around, and there's a lot to do.