[OSM-talk] keep right! and landuse=wood

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 13:35:42 BST 2009


2009/7/20 David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>:
> natural=wood is the widely used tag for a wood (over 65,000 of them and
> currently rendered widely. landuse=wood by comparison has never been
> widely used (only 214 occurrences currently). landuse=forest (why not
> natural=forest? just history) suggested for larger areas of woodland or
> actively managed trees.

or rather,
landuse=forest -> actively managed trees,
natural=wood -> natural woodland

hence why it's landuse=forest and not natural=.  Does this make sense?

Cheers




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