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

[Tyler]

Liz,
I would classify most eucalyptus spp. as deciduous (though judging by your
genus compositions you're in Australia, and I don't know what the species do
there), and probably classify casuarina spp as coniferous... but that's a
bad classification system. That's like saying "this apple is green, that
grapefruit is citrus."
There are deciduous conifers, and evergreen broadleafs. Coniferous doesn't
even account for all of the needleleaf trees.. The wiki should probably be
suggesting deciduous, evergreen and mixed. . .

Adopting the UNEP-WCMC broad categories [1] would make much more sense than
the current bad wiki suggestions. and adopting the more specific categories
would cover a vast majority of forests.

[1] http://www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/fp_background.htm#
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