There has been similar discussion some time ago within Slovenian forum. In practice most of forests/wood area are tagged as landuse=forest in Slovenia. Most people agreed that it would be very difficult to distinguish “non-managed” areas and tag them as natural=wood.
The original source for landuse import (RABA-KGZ) is actually named “Agricultural and Forestry Land Use”. The definition of raba:id=2000 which is transformed to landuse=forest is (short but basic one): “*Land defined as forests according to the regulations on forests.*” It should mean those areas are part of forest management policy and therefore managed in some way. I know there have been discussions among forestry and agricultural experts how to define forest according to this definition and there are some people claiming this is more land cover than land use. Anyway (respecting definition and practical meaning), the transformation of RABA-KGZ data to OSM using landuse=forest tag should be correct. Regards, Martin On 24 November 2015 at 17:18, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2015-11-24 16:53 GMT+01:00 Andy Townsend <[email protected]>: > >> As an aside, it should perhaps be stressed that almost no-one (apart from >> the person who suggested it above ) uses the tag "landcover=trees". ... >> > > > actually someone has started adopting this scheme (I found it in areas > where I never mapped), and I'm inviting everybody to join in. There's no > good reason adding a landuse=forest to any arbitrary small group of trees, > besides it has always been done. > > > >> I'm sure that it's fair to say that "natural=wood" is used _more_ to >> describe "here be trees" than "landcover=trees". >> > > > yes, no doubt. The more interesting question would be: what does this tag > imply. I am sure I would get more consistent answers from any 100 mappers I > ask about their interpretation of the tag for landcover=trees and for > natural=wood. > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > >
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