Only about the cited point (/tagging natural forests as natural=wood/), I think 
a natural forest should be tagged as natural=forest (/quite logically, I would 
say.../), while natural=wood should be reserved for "small forests" (/which is 
one of the possible meaning of "wood" in English, if I'm not mistaken/).

Also please consider that "forest" is very generic, and we could be willing to 
more exactly define which kind of forest we are tagging (/and eventually have 
it rendered accordingly/).

To this extent the only way I see in the Wiki is to use the leaf_type=* tag 
(/and only"broadleaved", "needleleaved" and "mixed" are defined as possible 
values/).Wikipedia defines 6 types of forest:

But to me a forest is not just "a lot of trees", but an entire ecosystem 
dominated by trees. And those ecosystems can be very different between 
different continents and latitudes.

  * Temperate needleleaf
  * Temperate broadleaf and mixed
  * Tropical moist
  * Tropical dry
  * Sparse trees and parkland
  * Forest plantations

I think we should be (somehow) able to tag those types.

Please also check the sixth forest type described in Wikipedia (/Forest 
plantations/): I think it coincide with the "forestry" concept we are talking 
about in the thread (/landuse=forestry, or whatever.../).

Cheers,

Sergio


On 2019-01-23 01:00, Peter Elderson wrote:
> Natural forests could be preferably tagged as natural=wood ...

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