Hi, Jason Cunningham wrote: > Regarding Wood & Forest. [...] I've tried to track back and find how these > two unique and > confusing definitions for Woodland came about, and it seems to lead to the > talk-de list (I cant be sure though).
No you can't. The discussion is quite old and was not started by the Germans, this time. If you check http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2006-September/007294.html and the following posts in that thread, you will find that people had all sorts of ideas back then: That wood was something to do with hunting; that forest/wood meant different predominiant tree types; that forest/wood differ in canopy cover, and so on. The current consensus seems to be that anything "natural=..." means little human controlling intervention, while anything "landuse=..." means humans manage most aspects of it. So a tree plantation would be landuse=forest and a jungle would be natural=wood but in between it is a mess. Germany, for example, simply doesn't have unmanaged forests; even the natural reserves are managed somehow. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
