On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 18:45 +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Wood: Woodland with no forestry > Forest: Managed woodland or woodland plantation.
Sorry, no. Certainly in Australia and I am sure lots of other parts of the world, the term 'forest' does not necessarily mean managed or planted. Most forest here is natural, while we may regret there is not as much there now as there was when the white man arrived, there is still quite a lot. A small part of it is logged from time to time but that does not mean managed. The loggers get permission to come in, log, then leave it to regenerate over, perhaps 50 to 100 years. Such areas are typically referred to as "state forest". The term "woodland" here means lower density trees. For one purpose, identifying bush fire risk, a woodland has 25% or less canopy cover and trees of less than, from memory, 25 metres high. Both forest and woodland can be on public or private land. David > > > In my eyes this is pretty clear. What am I missing / why does there > seem to be so much confusion? > > > > Regards, > Rob > > [1] > https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/647#issuecomment-52756701 > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
