Re: [Tagging] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 17.08.2015 4:10, Martijn van Exel napisał(a): But after some discussion I realized that this may be a side effect of a different problem, namely how we tag national forests. In the US, these seem to be tagged as landuse=forest which is only partly true: within a National Forest, many

Re: [Tagging] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-17 Thread Warin
For me, forestry is the production of wood, using trees. So a 'forestry area' would include mature trees, young trees, saplings, fresh plantings and places where the trees have been removed. I think that is what is meant by landuse = forest On the other hand there are areas that are covered in

Re: [Tagging] landcover=trees definition

2015-08-17 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 17.08.2015 00:29, John Willis wrote: This is the crux of the landcover argument. Because landuse=* implies what the land is used for - therefore man-altered and decided usefulness. natural=* was then interpreted by taggers to be the opposite - the natural state of the land which was

Re: [Tagging] landcover=trees definition

2015-08-17 Thread John Willis
Then we can create some biome tags to handle more complex tagging, but being able to define commonly encountered landcovers is necessary. My city has huge flood control embankmnets along the natural river in certain places. There is abandoned sections of asphalt and concrete in patches in odd