On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote:
> I responded to "what's wrong with getting rid of these bad choices?" > > I see nothing wrong with using landcover=trees. > > But in context of this discussion I understood "bad choices" as > landuse=forest. > > BTW, I am happy to fix some broken tagging - for example I am regularly > hunting down > demolished=yes (for example on buildings), made/make multiple mechanical > edits > cleaning up tags (yes, it is approved by local community and follows > mechanical edit policy). > > But deprecating landuse=forest of redefining lanes tag is not going to > happen. > > Could we compromise on 'discouraged for new data entry' and at leasthave the discussion of semantically appropriate tagging? Would it be possible that we could support all of the following? (1) landuse=forestry - to describe the land use, since the existing tag describes the land cover (2) landcover=trees - to describe the land cover (and allow for describing that land that has another use is treed) (3) landuse=forest - a note on the Wiki that the tag actually describes that the land is tree-covered, and that a preferable spelling might be landcover=trees (if that is what is meant) or landuse=forestry (if the land is actively managed as a producing forest) This is not 'deprecating' landuse=forest - it's still there, it can be there indefinitely, it can render correctly. It's adding tags in such a way that a user who wishes to describe the land use (there's no correct tag for it at present) or describe the landcover without introducing a conflicting land use (as for a patch of forest on an industrial parcel) at least has tagging available to do it. It's not proposing that mechanical edits would be a good idea or that we need any kind of Draconian coordinating body for tagging, it's just proposing an alternative spelling that associates with the desired semantics. (1) is the really important part - there is, at present, no accepted tagging for that idea.
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