On Wednesday 13 June 2018, Marc Gemis wrote: > > And landuse=forest is used for landcover, not landuse, so such > > mapping is correct. > > As I see it, it evolved from mapping areas where wood is used for > timber into a landcover tag. The first person that used it for > landcover purpose have mapped for the renderer imho. Others followed > and now people state it is a landcover tag.
Not really following the overall discussion here any more but trying to scuttle the attempt at rewriting history: The early use of landuse=forest/natural=wood was more or less like Approach 3 on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Forest See: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:landuse%3Dforest&oldid=200189 in particular the section 'Attention'. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging