I can understand the desire for distinct tagging. Certainly, it's much tougher to navigate a field of blowdown / prone forest like https://www.flickr.com/photos/ke9tv/14738421885/ than it is to walk through a standing forest.
Nevertheless, they are both landuse=forest (if managed for forestry) and landcover=trees or natural=wood (depending on local practice). I don't know of an existing distinct tag for such a region. landcover=trees trees:windthrow=yes, maybe? There are similar issues for low-lying areas in my part of the world. They are subject to cyclic beaver activity, so in any given year they may be water, mud flat, wet meadow, alder thicket, or wood. But it's pretty predictable where the beavers will eventually return to, and there are often well-defined bypass trails around frequently flooded basins. I've no idea what to do about those, either; I have tagged a few as 'swamp' simply because it was the least wrong tagging that I could find. Similarly, on relatively permanent beaver ponds, I've occasionally put 'man_made=dam' at the outlet; again, this is a 'least wrong' solution. It's unquestionably a dam. Not all dams are man-made, but functionally, it's pretty much the same thing. It holds back the water and offers a foot crossing for the stream - at least for those who are not above borrowing the way from Castor canadensis, its owner. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ke9tv/14299650593 On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Frank Warner <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would the trees naturally regenerate? > There should be seeds left behind by the old trees that would grow to > replace the old trees. So the area should be covered with trees .. young > trees but still trees. > > I much prefer landcover=* to natural and would use landcover=trees for this > situation. > > On 16 March 2018 at 07:15, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I am looking for a way to tag areas that used to be a forest but >> all/almost all trees were fallen by a strong wind. >> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiatro%C5%82om_T_26.jpg or >> >> http://web.archive.org/web/20180315194959/https://r-scale-80.dcs.redcdn.pl/scale/o2/tvn/web-content/m/p1/i/270edd69788dce200a3b395a6da6fdb7/d2a7777c-1c85-4868-b703-9e570d15bb73.png?type=1&srcmode=0&srcx=1/1&srcy=1/1&srcw=1/1&srch=1/1&dstw=970&dsth=546&quality=80 >> and >> http://web.archive.org/web/20180315194712/http://ocdn.eu/ebooksimages-transforms/1/RtqktoARGh0dHA6Ly9vY2RuLmV1L25ld3N3ZWVrLXdlYi9hODRmYWI4YS01OTAzLTRlNDMtOGVhZC1jOTBiNDhjZGZhZmEuanBnkZMCzQNcAA >> are good depictions of this situations. >> >> Sometimes such are is relatively quickly cleaned up and new forest is >> planted but in some cases (for example in Tatra mountains) such windthrow >> areas are staying for a long time (years, maybe longer) so tagging this >> makes sense. >> >> I looked at https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org//search?q=windthrow and it >> seems that nobody tagged this kind of object. >> I found https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org//search?q=windfall but with >> really low usage >> I looked for windfall and windthrow in archives of tagging mailing list. >> >> I used natural=windthrow, but maybe there is an existing tag already used >> for that? >> >> Overpass query with all tagged areas (currently it is just 8 areas): >> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/x2O >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
