Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-20 Thread stevea
On 08/19/2015 07:25 PM, stevea wrote: This isn't extreme. Your backyard activity is consistent with the definition of a forest: a land which is used for the production of wood/lumber/timber/firewood/pulp/et cetera. Frederik, Frederik, Frederik...where do I begin?! According to our

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/19/2015 07:25 PM, stevea wrote: This isn't extreme. Your backyard activity is consistent with the definition of a forest: a land which is used for the production of wood/lumber/timber/firewood/pulp/et cetera. There is a problem with this definition; it is too broad. Even the

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-20 Thread stevea
John Firebaugh writes: The political boundaries of US National Forests should not be tagged landuse=forest unless the entirety of their area is land primarily managed for timber production. I venture to assert that this is not true for *any* of the National Forests. Here are some examples of

Re: [Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenge - fix railway crossings

2015-08-20 Thread Mike N
On 8/4/2015 4:59 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Also, please even if you see the crossing rendered, do go in and check, because I have seen more than once that the crossing node is not a shared node between way and rail. (Hint, use 'j' to join node to way and 'm' to merge nodes that are (almost) on

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-20 Thread John Firebaugh
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:22 PM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: John Firebaugh writes: The political boundaries of US National Forests should not be tagged landuse=forest unless the entirety of their area is land primarily managed for timber production. I venture to assert that

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-20 Thread John Firebaugh
The political boundaries of US National Forests should not be tagged landuse=forest unless the entirety of their area is land primarily managed for timber production. I venture to assert that this is not true for *any* of the National Forests. Here are some examples of areas within National

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests

2015-08-20 Thread Russell Deffner
-Original Message- From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:22 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Cc: John Firebaugh Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Tagging National Forests Well, perhaps we have a happy compromise here. Tell you what: I'll start with