@warin, This is another laughable instance of how terminology we consider normal is so different across the ocean. To Americans timber refers to the standing trees in a forest. Timber is felled and cut into lumber. We might describe an area as being "heavily timbered" or having "standing timber". One would never substitute the word lumber for timber in either of those phrases. A place that was "heavily lumbered" would imply that the trees had been felled, removed, and cut up into boards which we call lumber.
In this particular case these differences can be handily side-stepped because John Willis offers the use of crop=timber, which works to clarify the terminology without offending anyone while still being entirely correct. > crop=timber > crop=rubber +1 Cheers, Dave On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:25 AM, John Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 10, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There are other things produced by forestry ... > > maple syrup for Canadians > > rubber from rubber trees > > various oils (tea tree oil, eucalyptus oil) > > as well as timber. > > > > From the crop wiki I think this can be an additional tag for > landuse=forest ... > > crop=timber > > crop=rubber > > etc. > > +1 > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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