Re: [HOT] Bolivian Floods: "landuse=forest" or "natural=wood"?

2014-02-10 Thread Marco Antonio
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:33 PM, hyan...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi hotties! > > Some of us are tracing polygons over tree areas, ones are using > "landuse=forest" others "natural=wood" ¿which you consider more indicated? > Mapping trees could be helpful for high level floods. > The project GeoBolivia

Re: [HOT] Bolivian Floods: "landuse=forest" or "natural=wood"?

2014-02-10 Thread Sebastian Schropp
Hi, the best way would have been to directly contact the mapper who has added 90% of the forest around Ixiamas (me). I've used landuse=forest because the forest around Ixiamas is harvested by three big companies. natural=wood I do only use for forests which are almost completly not touched by h

Re: [HOT] Bolivian Floods: "landuse=forest" or "natural=wood"?

2014-02-09 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Humberto: About the forest vs. wood, it depends. Although there are 3 approaches to which one to choose ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dwood#Notes ), it's generally accepted to use the tag forest for areas covered mainly with tr

Re: [HOT] Bolivian Floods: "landuse=forest" or "natural=wood"?

2014-02-09 Thread Paul Norman
There are multiple schemes used for natural=wood vs landuse=forest, so either use is just as valid. From: hyan...@gmail.com [mailto:hyan...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 6:34 PM To: HOT Subject: [HOT] Bolivian Floods: "landuse=forest" or "natural=wood"?

Re: [HOT] Bolivian Floods: "landuse=forest" or "natural=wood"?

2014-02-09 Thread Pierre Béland
://irc.oftc.net/#osm   Pierre De : "hyan...@gmail.com" À : HOT Envoyé le : Dimanche 9 février 2014 21h33 Objet : [HOT] Bolivian Floods: "landuse=forest" or "natural=wood"? Hi hotties! Some of us are tracing polygons over tree a

[HOT] Bolivian Floods: "landuse=forest" or "natural=wood"?

2014-02-09 Thread hyan...@gmail.com
Hi hotties! Some of us are tracing polygons over tree areas, ones are using "landuse=forest" others "natural=wood" ¿which you consider more indicated? Mapping trees could be helpful for high level floods. By the way, trying to give answer to question below, I'm wondering about the best communicat