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

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/7/20 Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com>:
> 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.

That has been exactly my interpretation, too, it didn't really occur
to me the size of the wooded area would play a role in the tagging
although that is how most people in this thread interpreted it.

Cheers