[Talk-us] Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest (landuse=forest and US National forests again)

[Tod Fitch]

My take:

landuse=forest ==> Managed for wood, timber, lumber, paper production, etc.
natural=wood ==> Its got trees on it. May be managed for recreation, watershed, endangered species, etc. or it may not managed at all.

My preferred take, not fully accepted by the wiki or tagging list but certainly in use according to taginfo, is to use landcover=trees rather than natural=wood as I can’t necessarily tell even in a survey if the area is natural, managed, or not but I can tell if it has trees on it.


> On Nov 29, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My take:
> 
> landuse = forest ---> human managed
> natural = wood ---> natural
> 
> I don't agree with designating USFS land as landuse=forest, unless we can agree to abort the use of landuse=forest for tagging clumps of trees. We need a best common practice here.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 4:09 PM Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com <mailto:penorman at mac.com>> wrote:
> On 11/29/2016 7:14 AM, Andy Townsend wrote:
> > All I know of the area is"lots of parts of it do have lots of trees",
> > but does the landuse=forest assignment make sense on the National
> > Forest boundary, or should it be on the forested areas within?  I
> > mention this here rather because I'm sure there are people here
> > familiar with the area, which I'm not.
> 
> The forested areas within. Or natural=wood, both get used in practice,
> but that's an entire different mess.
> 
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