I responded to "what's wrong with getting rid of these bad choices?"
I see nothing wrong with using landcover=trees.
But in context of this discussion I understood "bad choices" as landuse=forest.
BTW, I am happy to fix some broken tagging - for example I am regularly hunting
downdemolished=yes (for example on buildings), made/make multiple mechanical
editscleaning up tags (yes, it is approved by local community and follows
mechanical edit policy).
But deprecating landuse=forest of redefining lanes tag is not going to happen.
7. Jun 2018 16:11 by pelder...@gmail.com <mailto:pelder...@gmail.com>:
> Rendering landcover=trees is not the same as deprecating landuse=forest.
> It just offers the option to tag tree-covered areas on a different landuse
> such as industrial, military, residential or commercial.
> I do expect a shift from landuse=forest to landcover=trees, as soon as it
> would be rendered.
> Not because of retagging of all forests, but because of tagging the smaller
> treecovered patches mainly in residential areas, which are now either
> mistagged as forests, orchards, parks and gardens, or are not tagged at all
> because it isn't landuse as it is defined in the wiki.
>
> 2018-06-07 15:36 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoni...@tutanota.com
> <mailto:matkoni...@tutanota.com>> >:
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>> 7. Jun 2018 11:53 by >> selfishseaho...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:selfishseaho...@gmail.com>>> :
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>>> On 7 June 2018 at 10:46, Christoph Hormann <>>> o...@imagico.de
>>> <mailto:o...@imagico.de>>>> > wrote:
>>>> There are tons of established tags in OSM where the key makes no sense
>>>> at all. Don't get me started on 'waterway' for example. But that is
>>>> how OSM works. Get over it, accept that people have made bad choices
>>>> of keys when choosing tags and concentrate on encouraging and helping
>>>> people to choose suitable keys when newly creating tags (in a
>>>> productive way of course, not just by rejecting any idea as bad).
>>>
>>> And what's wrong with getting rid of these bad choices?
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>> Cost, effort and confusion is not worth positive effects.
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>> Revolutions are really rarely worth costs.
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>> Making tagging more consistent is not one of this cases.
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>> Improvements are possible but not when it starts from "deprecate
>> landuse=forest because it is not used to tag land use".
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