[OSM-talk] Woods vs Forests

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> A problem comes from the name "natural" that to most people (including
> mappers) carries a meaning that excludes some meanings accepted in the
> OSMwiki definition.
> For this reason it would be better to use a tag that carries no distorted
> meaning, say landcover=trees for instance.
>

I can definitely agree with this. landcover=trees carries no weird meanings
unlike natural=wood (natural? man-made?). I can accept using landuse=forest
for land that is used for forestry-related uses (like production of timber
or a national forest), but for everything that is covered by a dense group
of trees, landcover=trees seems the way to go.
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