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 like this but this is entirely wrong. > National forest defines the ownership but has nothing to do with the > landcover.
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. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
