* OSM Volunteer stevea <[email protected]> [160509 20:23]: > This might sound glib, but I believe that setting landuse=forest on a > (multi)polygon which is land use forest is correct. [..]
I guess everyone would agree with that. The problem is that we (as in "the mappers of OpenStreetMap") don't agree on what landuse=forest actually means. As far as I remember we have one group that thinks its an area set aside for growing and harvesting timber, so it can be recognized by the presence of (planted) trees or the remains of trees that have been recently harvested and will be replaced by newly planted trees soon(-ish); and another group defining it as an area where timber or small wood can be legally harvested or collected, regardless of trees being actually or at least possibly present. For forests using the second definition you would have to follow official boundaries, which might be difficult to verify on the ground. My personal preference would be to take up mapping areas covered by trees as landcover=trees and rendering these areas the way that landuse=forest is currently rendered, to map National Forests with an administrative boundary and just rendering the boundary line and deprecate landuse=forest altogether. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
