[OSM-talk] tagging for landuse and landcover

[Andy Allan]

No! :-) The layer tag is for things that are vertically separated -
like bridges going over rivers and so on.

Cheers,
Andy

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should I use the tag layer?
> like
> natural:forest
>
> landuse:tourism
> layer:X
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:27 PM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the Philippines, landcover and landuse are often interchangeable.
>> But they are completely different.
>> Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth,
>> while, land use is a description of how people utilize the land [1]
>>
>> For example, I have an area mostly covered by forest so I tag them
>> natural:forest.
>> But a mixture of landuse (sometimes conflicting), like, tourism,
>> quarrying, national park, etc.
>> How do others map this?
>>
>> cheers,
>> maning
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_cover
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