Re: [Tagging] landcover=trees definition

2015-08-15 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 16.08.2015 1:27, Friedrich Volkmann napisał(a): No, because the landcover=* key is just nonsense. There is no definition for http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landcover that key. What does landcover mean? Vegetation? Soil? Atmosphere? Buildings? Ocean? Everything we map is landcover

Re: [Tagging] landcover=trees definition

2015-08-15 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 16.08.2015 01:24, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > grass isn't a "use", landuse=grass is nonsense.(IMHO) Why, the land is used to grow grass. Thus, landuse=grass. > landcover=x doesn't mean there is only x, it says the area appears as covered > with x That depends on observation time. E.g. much

Re: [Tagging] landcover=trees definition

2015-08-15 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 03.08.2015 00:55, Daniel Koć wrote: > I have just discovered that while landcover=trees has no Wiki page, it's > quite established tag (I wouldn't say "popular" here, because it's just > about 1% of forest/wood uses) and we could officially define as a generic > tag for trees areas, when it's no

Re: [Tagging] landcover=trees definition

2015-08-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 16.08.2015 um 00:59 schrieb Friedrich Volkmann : > > The > landuse may be grass, but the landcover isn't just grass. grass isn't a "use", landuse=grass is nonsense.(IMHO) landcover=x doesn't mean there is only x, it says the area appears as covered with x and x might

Re: [Tagging] landcover=trees definition

2015-08-15 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 10.08.2015 12:29, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > A pity - I just happen to have a problem that this proposal would solve... > Take a look at this charming corner of Normandy: http://binged.it/1ht3p7v > > On the left, a dense urban location that is clearly landuse=residential. On > the right, what i

Re: [Tagging] There are no 'non managed' woods. Was: landcover=trees definition

2015-08-15 Thread Dave F.
On 02/08/2015 23:55, Daniel Koć wrote: I have just discovered that while landcover=trees has no Wiki page, it's quite established tag (I wouldn't say "popular" here, because it's just about 1% of forest/wood uses) and we could officially define as a generic tag for trees areas, when it's not cl

Re: [Tagging] landcover=trees definition

2015-08-15 Thread Dave F.
If the grass is municipally maintained the I use landuse=grass (I'm on the fence about using landcover). If I have the time or inclination I'll separate it from residential with a multipolygon relation. If it private then I mark it as landuse=residential & probably leave it at that. If you ant