On Monday 20 October 2014, Ludwig wrote: > I just stumbled over > http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest > > More info under > http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest/dow >nload.html
Independent from the license the tree cover data is not suited for import into OSM for multiple reasons: - the data shows percentage of tree cover which is something OSM does not map. OSM does only distinguish between forest/wood and no forest/wood, furthermore not all tree covered areas are tagged as such like landuse=orchard. leisure=park/leisure=garden can be largely tree covered as well. - the data is not very reliable, distinguishing between woodland and scrubland as well as woodland and non-wooded wetlands based on spectral characterisitics is tricky. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
