[Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

[Elliott Plack]

Looping back to this. I was looking at the town of Breckenridge, Colorado,
and the whole things is covered by trees. On some renders, it is just a big
green blob over the town. Here it is:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3724941

This is not right. "landuse" implies that the *land* has a *use*, which is
whatever follows the = sign. I am fine if we want to say that landuse =
timber production (or whatever) in general, but to render the tag
landuse=forest with little trees or a bold green color does not give the
right impression to the viewer. I think we should be encouraging users to
trace the forests more precisely, rather than with big blocks.

Also I've noticed these Colorado imports are not being done by a user with
an _import account, so it makes me wonder if these folks importing forest
cover are following the import rules. These forests also have a national
park tag, which they are not.

Some examples attached. Note the forest covered parking lots and lakes.

[image: 2016-05-09 12_59_30-OpenStreetMap _ Relation_ ‪White River National
Forest‬ (‪3724941‬).png]What is the current consensus? Maybe we should all
get behind this proposal, and start changing landuses to landcovers where
appropriate? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:39 PM stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> In my previous post, the redacted sentence "Ditto administrative
> boundaries, especially for public areas of" should conclude with
> "resource management and/or recreation."
>
> SteveA
> California
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