In Italy, are all of the trees with designation=natural_monument the officially protected ones, or are there others that are old or historic but not official?
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:29 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Mo., 29. Juli 2019 um 11:11 Uhr schrieb Joseph Eisenberg < > [email protected]>: > >> But then I checked the other values of denotation=, eg >> denotation=urban, denotation=avenue, =landmark, =natural_monument. >> Boy, that's a mess. The whole key was poorly thought out. >> >> It looks like many mappers don't realize that database users can find >> natural=tree within landuse=residential/commercial/retail to find >> urban trees, or within leisure=park for park trees, or search within >> 10 m of a highway, etc. >> > > > I am adding denotation=avenue to trees that are planted to form an avenue, > because you can filter trees within some distance from a road, but not all > of them are there to form an avenue, they could simply be trees close to a > road (but a human would not regard them as part of an avenue). Species, > size and position come into play, something that might be automatically > recognizable with an elaborated system, but it would have to be more > complex than just "within x meters from a road". > > Landmark and natural_monument can probably only with additional knowledge > be tagged correctly. > Urban may seem kind of superfluous, agreed (in theory it allows for > detailed mapping of urban trees even in the absence of landuse, roads and > other features, but in reality this will hardly ever happen). > > > >> >> I've added some comments about the necessity and verifiability of >> these tags (landmark and natural_monument seem to be subjective >> opinions about the importance of a tree, unless in some places there >> are official landmark or monument trees, but this isn't possible to >> tell). >> > > > I can confirm that in Italy and Germany (and likely elsewhere) there are > individual trees which are designated natural monuments (by "law") and > which are mapped with these tags. > > Cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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