[OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

Dave F davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Mon Oct 30 10:41:09 UTC 2017


On 29/10/2017 14:16, Tobias Knerr wrote:
> On 27.10.2017 00:49, Dave F wrote:
>> The woods/forest problem is one of the worst tagging cock-ups in OSM.
> Indeed. The current mess is especially disappointing because it hasn't
> always been that way: The status quo is the result of an attempt to
> "improve" the tagging years ago.

True.
The really silly thing is that due to 'landuse=forest' being added as a 
selectable default in most editors, 99.9% of them were added with no 
knowledge of them being 'managed'.

It really is pointless data.

DaveF

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