Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 01:30 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: I am not aware about values that should be used in that case. you are saying that landuse=forest is not a good tag to describe an area where trees have just been logged and will soon be planted

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Warin
On 17/08/2015 7:20 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: In that case it is perfectly OK to do not edit map and keep it as it was (yes, as I understand it and it seems to be a widely used in this way - landuse=wood, natural=wood, landcover=trees are used currently for the same objects). Err disagree,

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
In that case it is perfectly OK to do not edit map and keep it as it was (yes, as I understand it and it seems to be a widely used in this way - landuse=wood, natural=wood, landcover=trees are used currently for the same objects). Probably landuse=forestry and landcover=trees would be a good idea

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-17 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 17.08.2015 13:20, Warin napisał(a): On 17/08/2015 7:20 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: In that case it is perfectly OK to do not edit map and keep it as it was (yes, as I understand it and it seems to be a widely used in this way - landuse=wood, natural=wood, landcover=trees are used

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 16/08/2015, Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-08-16 15:27 GMT+02:00 Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com: landuse=forest does not imply the area is completely tree covered. Note that in typical usage it means exactly this. Maybe original intention was for that tag was to mean

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 16/08/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: which landuse is good for an area where trees have just been logged and will soon be planted again? landuse=forest, which I've always reasoned of as being landuse=forestry :) Which landuse value is suitable for an area where

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 11:20 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: Probably landuse=forestry and landcover=trees would be a good idea and I would support such proposal. how do you suggest to put names? On locality nodes? On landuse objects? If you do the latter

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 17/08/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Am 17.08.2015 um 11:20 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: Probably landuse=forestry and landcover=trees would be a good idea and I would support such proposal. how do you suggest to put names? On locality nodes?

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 17/08/2015, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/08/2015 7:20 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: In that case it is perfectly OK to do not edit map and keep it as it was The problem with that is that the map will be wrong for 5-15 years (depending on what kind of trees are being grown). I

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 17.08.2015 um 17:05 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: You would also have to have overlapping landuse forest areas. When would you need that ? when a forest with a name is part of a bigger forest with a different name cheers Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-16 Thread Greg Troxel
moltonel molto...@gmail.com writes: This is a perfect example of the confusion around landuse=forest vs natural=wood. Size and density ? Managed ? Named ? Usage type ? The curent osm data is a mix of all these criterias an more; at this stage it is hopeless for the consumer to extract more

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-16 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 15/08/2015 21:42, Lester Caine wrote: My quick fix for any new rendering is simply to switch off 'farmland' so that the tree blocks it masks actually display. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/245442613 is an example of the problem, as are the adjacent areas to the right, while to the left

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-16 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
2015-08-16 15:27 GMT+02:00 Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com: landuse=forest does not imply the area is completely tree covered. Note that in typical usage it means exactly this. Maybe original intention was for that tag was to mean something else - but it is not changing how it is used by most

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-16 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 15/08/2015 20:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: ... And then there are areas where actually trees grow, sometimes in a forest and sometimes elsewhere. That's where landcover trees seems appropriate for me. Maybe a diary entry explaining your point of view on this in detail would help

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-16 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
I am not aware about values that should be used in that case. 2015-08-16 20:58 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2015-08-16 19:00 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: Note that in typical usage it means exactly this. Maybe original intention was for that

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-08-16 16:19 GMT+02:00 ajt1...@gmail.com ajt1...@gmail.com: what meaning you think natural=wood and landuse=forest have? Pictures you've taken of the areas would be really helpful too. did you actually read what I have written above? Are there any specific parts that weren't clear that

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-16 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 16/08/2015 21:27, Lester Caine wrote: The tree areas that are within the farmland area are NOT now farmland and probably never were Can you point to a tree area within farmland? I couldn't see one when I had a quick look. It's slightly confusing because the multipolygon is pulling the

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-08-16 19:00 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: Note that in typical usage it means exactly this. Maybe original intention was for that tag was to mean something else - but it is not changing how it is used by most mappers. which landuse is good for an area where trees

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-15 Thread moltonel
On 15 August 2015 14:23:09 GMT+01:00, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: you are mistaken, the motivation for landcover was not connected to the natural (as in nature) and managed idea. Usually the distinction between wood and forest is size and density, the distinction between

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 15.08.2015 15:23, Martin Koppenhoefer napisał(a): you are mistaken, the motivation for landcover was not connected to the natural (as in nature) and managed idea. Usually the distinction between wood and forest is size and density, the distinction between natural and landuse is about

[OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-15 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 15.08.2015 13:50, Christoph Hormann napisał(a): The suggestion of using landcover=trees is generally based on the idea that both landuse=forest and natural=wood have a distinct meaning and there are tree covered areas which are neither of these. But in reality this is not the case and

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees [was Re: OpenStreetMap Carto v2.33.0 release]

2015-08-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 15.08.2015 um 14:58 schrieb Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl: In my opinion suggestion of using landcover=trees is based on the lack of clarity of these tags. Forest suggests it is curated somehow (landuse), wood suggests it is not (natural), but nobody is sure anymore what

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 15.08.2015 15:16, Martin Koppenhoefer napisał(a): IMHO it would rather encourage mappers to make more sense out of these than it is now. I'm myself adding a pointless landuse=forest for every landcover=trees now (for the renderer), and I guess most other mappers do the same. I will

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Dave F.
Hi I think that discussion should have been titled Stop tagging natural=wood and landuse=forest differently. As I've said have a unified render just covers up that we're tagging incorrectly. There should only be one primary tag to describe large area of trees. Whether it be landcover or

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
On 15/08/15 16:31, Dave F. wrote: Whether it be landcover or landuse or whatever, I'm not that concerned about but it really should only be one option. I think that there is a European definition for 'landuse' as part of the standards? Certainly the documentation I have for the NLPG database

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 8:13 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: I asked about it here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1724#issuecomment-128702817 but the issue is closed now without too detailed discussion The issue was closed because it was solved - the rendering was unified. The

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 15.08.2015 um 17:31 schrieb Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: As I've said have a unified render just covers up that we're tagging incorrectly. There should only be one primary tag to describe large area of trees. Whether it be landcover or landuse or whatever, I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 15.08.2015 21:42, Paul Norman napisał(a): On 8/15/2015 8:13 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: I asked about it here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1724#issuecomment-128702817 but the issue is closed now without too detailed discussion The issue was closed because it

Re: [OSM-talk] landcover=trees

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
On 15/08/15 20:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: For rendering purposes, I would use a fill mainly for the landcover, while the names (and no fill) would come from natural. Landuse would be mainly for specialist maps, but of course this is up to the rendering style devs to ultimately decide.