David Marchal <[email protected]> writes: > 1) forest parcels: some people use a boundary relation with > boundary=forest_compartment, but this seems mainly used in Eastern > Europe, so geographically limited; others map each parcel with
(We don't do this in the US, as far as I know; sounds like allotments for forestry?) I am guessing there is some biggish region used for forestry, and then within it there are specific areas leased/etc. to individuals/companies? I would tag landuse=forest around the whole thing. Then, representing ownership/etc. within is really just like parcels for houses, which so far OSM has declined to put in the db. > 2) national/municipal forests: numerous forests, here in France, are > municipal or national ones — the latter being called “forêt domaniale” > —; many of them are labelled as such on road signs, and they are often > named after this parameter — like “forêt domaniale de Dabo”, Dabo > being the neighboring village —, so I think they should be mapped, but > how? Should I, there again, use a boundary relation and tag it > boundary=forest? This seems to be the wider-used solution and the most > consistent one, but boundary=forest isn't in the uses of boundary > relations documented on the wiki, and I read warnings on > help.openstreetmap.org and MLs against such undocumented uses, so I > prefer asking here: should I use this solution? Another? I would do landuse=forest and then just put name= on the polygon. Yes, this is a boundary, but no more so than the boundary around a school or a church or a town park, and we don't use boundary for that. We do have boundary=protected_area, but I think that's a mistake, and we should instead tag the properties on the closed way to denote the state of the inside. But the notion of a boundary vs a property of the inside of a polygon is semantically messy to start with. One could argue that every area tag goo on a polygon could instead be boundary=foo. I don't think that's helpful.
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