On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Elliott Plack <elliott.pl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the continued discussion. It seems that one of you removed the > offending landuse that I mentioned in my email yesterday (from an import > that was not attributed). As a result, the tiles have begun to regen, and > we can now see the beautiful, detailed forest tracing that someone did > around the ski slopes. This is an example of why blanketing a few hundred > thousand square miles is not appropriate. Here is a screenshot: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xgtiodzjvhq1l4/2016-05-10%2013_14_51-OpenStreetMap.png?dl=0 > Nice! > > Now, I gave this some more thought, and I do tend to agree with Steve A > that landuse=forest indicates an area designated by humans for a particular > use. > We need to be more specific as to what this means. I would suggest that this tag is only appropriate where there is active commercial cultivation of trees for timber, pulp or similar products. Steve things otherwise, and I respect his point of view and appreciate how he is making his argument. However, if we go with a much less specific definition, such as anywhere someone can gather camp fire wood, then any land where there is a tree (with the exception of designated wilderness areas, etc) become landuse=forest. We really have a number of different facts we are attempting to represent: * What is on the ground (i.e. landcover). Currently this is tagged natural=wood, but we could change to landcover=trees, or whatever we agree on. * Who administers the land / has jurisdiction (e.g. US National Forest Service) - seems like we (the people participating in this thread) agree on this one. * How did the landcover get there? e.g. old growth, human planted, natural secondary growth? I suggest that these be "secondary" tags. In other words, all treed areas are tagged natural=wood (or whatever tag we agree on), and tags indicating the origin of the trees be added where this information is known. * How is the land being used? This is where we need to come to a consensus on a more specific definition for landuse=forest - see above. Mike > >
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