[Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

[Eric Christensen]

On 05/10/2016 01:28 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
> What
> muddied the waters is whether or not this should apply to a US National
> Forest.  I believe it is NOW widely accepted that we should not do that
> on a USFS administrative boundary (instead using
> boundary=protected_area, protect_class=6).

I recently removed "landuse=forest" from the boundary of George 
Washington National Forest specifically because it's not all 
forest/woods.  There are many residential areas and other land use 
inside the protected area.  I hope to go back and actually map the 
forest area within that boundary.  So, yes, I believe it's not 
appropriate to use landuse=forestry for national forests *unless* the 
entire encapsulated area is, in fact, forest.

--Eric