landuse= man made and maintained natrual= it made itself(which is 99.9% of the time the case)
On Oct 27, 2017 5:27 AM, "Dave F" <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> wrote: > You appear to be differentiating based on size & location which, seeing > OSM's output is visual & geospatial seems unnecessary. > > *All* groups of trees are 'natural' so there should only be one primary > tag. All "purposes" should be within sub-tags. > > DaveF > > On 27/10/2017 08:52, Tomas Straupis wrote: > >> Some info on how/why forest/wood tagging is used in Lithuania. I will >> not give specific tags (forest vs wood, landuse vs natural etc), >> because in my opinion that is a secondary issue. Let's say we have >> tags F1 and F2. >> >> F1 is for general forests. Those are the ones depicted on small scale >> maps (full country/region). >> >> F2 is for small wooded areas INSIDE other polygons, usually inside >> residential, commercial, industrial zones. >> >> This approach ignores utility as such (managed, non managed, natural, >> left for full nature cycles as mention in Oleksiy's post). This >> information could be added as a sub-tag if needed for some thematic >> maps or specific statistical calculations. >> >> What I'm saying is that maybe we should: >> 1. first decide the PURPOSES of having "tree cluster" polygons tagged >> separately. >> 2. Then PRIORITISE the purposes (based on ACTUAL usage ignoring all >> "it could theoretically be used to/for...") >> 3. and then decide which info goes to primary tag, which goes to >> secondary tag(s). >> 4. And only THEN decide on actual tags (keys, values). >> Doing it the other way round will take us back to this forest >> discussion as it has been here for the last ten years like discussing >> what the words "forest", "wood", "natural", "landuse", "landcover" >> etc. actually mean. >> >> > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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