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

[Gustav Foseid]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:

> Of course, determining whether your average bit of woodland in the UK is
> landuse or natural is fun, given that pretty much all of it has been
> carefully managed at soem stage over the past few hundred years! Why do we
> care if it's mananged, and if it's a forest or wood? Knowing that would
> help guide which tags to use, otherwise I'm tempted to just mark everything
> as natural=wood and be done with it!
>

In my mind, something like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cricketbatwillow/825730972/
is "managed forest" and landuse=forest

But something like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sequella/425687849/in/photostream/
is mostly unmanaged and natural=wood.

At least, that has been my interpretation of the wiki.

 - Gustav
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