On 07/10/2010, at 19.29, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
I like it. Presumably it's to be precise - you draw only the area
that's covered by said landcover, as opposed to landuse which can
include small amounts of others within its boundaries. The following
landuse values should then be landcover:
2010/10/7 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com
wrote:
Not everything in a national forest is covered by trees, yet the
standard way of tagging one is landuse=forest on an area.
Actually forest should IMHO be used for
2010/10/7 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de:
I'd forgotten about that--good point. Although surface as currently
used seems to be mainly in the context of roads.
There's nothing to limit it to roads - it describes the surface of a
feature. For example, the natural=beach wiki page recommends
2010/10/8 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com:
still it isn't at all a forest.
It is a forest - a clearing within a forest.
There is no point in tagging it as a forest. I know that you can
generalize it like this. It's the same point as with a lake inside a
forest. Is the lake part of the
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:55 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/10/8 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com:
still it isn't at all a forest.
It is a forest - a clearing within a forest.
There is no point in tagging it as a forest. I know that you can
generalize it like
2010/10/8 André Riedel riedel.an...@gmail.com:
I like the values from last email discussion:don't
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-July/038774.html
some are fine, some are not (cave_entrance, beach, cave, coastline, basin, ...)
let's not mix functions with landcover. How
On 08.10.2010 00:05, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
still it isn't at all a forest. landuse forest is a documented tag for
forests and forests means an area with trees.
all the other areas you will find in a national forest have well defined
tags natural/landuse=wood,glacier,heat,meadow,shrub
On 08.10.2010 07:17, Stephen Hope wrote:
On 8 October 2010 03:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the current feeling for a new key landcover? Could resolve
many issues, as often landuse is a mixture of actual use and
coverage.
As long as it is made clear that
On 07.10.2010 23:22, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Ralf Kleineisel r...@kleineisel.de wrote:
of border line, but the areas where trees grow as forest. So the
national park should be tagged as boundary=national_park or similiar.
It's not a national park, but a
I know we already talked about this, but actually no actions followed ;-)
What is the current feeling for a new key landcover? Could resolve
many issues, as often landuse is a mixture of actual use and
coverage.
Seems like there is already landcover=tree in the database:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:09 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
I know we already talked about this, but actually no actions followed ;-)
What is the current feeling for a new key landcover? Could resolve
many issues, as often landuse is a mixture of actual use and
coverage.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote:
In general, I like the idea. But I don't think the agricultural tags should
be changed from landuse--they describe how the land is used. For example,
forest describes what covers the land (trees), while orchard
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com
wrote:
In general, I like the idea. But I don't think the agricultural tags should
be changed from landuse--they describe how the land is used.
I'd forgotten about that--good point. Although surface as currently used
seems to be mainly in the context of roads.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Could this not be collapsed into with surface=*? If not, what would be
the relationship/difference
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
Not everything in a national forest is covered by trees, yet the
standard way of tagging one is landuse=forest on an area.
some tag it like this but this is entirely wrong.
National forest defines the ownership but
On 07/10/2010 19:56, Tobias Knerr wrote:
Brad Neuhauser wrote:
I'd forgotten about that--good point. Although surface as currently
used seems to be mainly in the context of roads.
There's nothing to limit it to roads - it describes the surface of a
feature. For example, the natural=beach
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
wrote:
Not everything in a national forest is covered by trees, yet the
standard way of tagging one is landuse=forest on an area.
some tag it
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote:
Brad Neuhauser wrote:
I'd forgotten about that--good point. Although surface as currently
used seems to be mainly in the context of roads.
There's nothing to limit it to roads - it describes the surface of a
On 10/07/2010 10:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
That's why it's landuse=forest, not landcover=forest. A
landuse=residential area isn't all houses (it includes yards,
That's why it is not landuse=house. A landuse=residential contains all
things that belong to a typical residential area, like
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Ralf Kleineisel r...@kleineisel.de wrote:
I know that legally a field may belong to a national forest, but it
shouldn't be tagged as a forest because it isn't one.
It is a part of a managed forest.
Every topographic
or street map I know would show a border of a
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
That's why it's landuse=forest, not landcover=forest. A
landuse=residential area isn't all houses (it includes yards,
driveways, garages, streets, sidewalks) and a landuse=forest area
isn't all trees.
still it
On 8 October 2010 03:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the current feeling for a new key landcover? Could resolve
many issues, as often landuse is a mixture of actual use and
coverage.
As long as it is made clear that not all landuse= tags are actually
landuse (or
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