[Tilesathome] wood=deciduous,coniferous,mixed

[Sven Geggus]

Knut Arne Bjørndal <bob+osm at cakebox.net> wrote:

> It might make sense to germans, but I suspect I have about 50% chance
> of guessing which is which...

Huh! I learned about these symbols in grammar school some 20 years
ago. I even remeber why they look like they look:

Think about a coniferous tree. They always look like this (christmas
tree): /\

Deciduous trees however are usually kind of round. Thats the reason
for the other symbol.

See
http://www.lv-bw.de/lvshop2/ProduktInfo/karten/topkarten/top25/bilder/top25_bsp2_gross.gif
as an example for a German official Topographic map.

Theses symbols are this common in all our maps that we did not even
think about these not beeing some kind of international norm.

Sven

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