[OSM-talk] Do we care if its forest or wood? Natural worldmapping ...

[Mike Harris]

Sympathy from a pom! Deciduous and evergreen are orthogonal. Coniferous is
not even quite a sub-set of evergreen as there are a few deciduous conifers,
e.g. larch. So OSM to use evergreen vs. deciduous and show its innate
superiority to OS?


Mike Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: Liz [mailto:edodd at billiau.net] 
Sent: 22 July 2009 21:38
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Do we care if its forest or wood? Natural
worldmapping ...

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Alice Kaerast wrote:
> There is also another property which hasn't been considered - type of 
> trees.  Evergreen vs. Deciduous might be nice to know.  Ordnance 
> survey maps differentiate between coniferous and non-coniferous and 
> has symbols for coppice and orchard.

Another Venn diagram problem.
Our trees are neither coniferous or deciduous, and the alternate is "mixed" 

Liz
living in country covered in mallee, casuarina and occasional eucalypt