[OSM-talk] tagging for landuse and landcover

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 11:41:58 BST 2008


Yes thank you.  That's what I suspect.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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