Date: Jan 23, 2019, 8:31 AM From: 61sundow...@gmail.com To: matkoni...@tutanota.com Subject: Re: [Tagging] Forest parcel with other landcover (scrub, scree…): how to map? > On 23/01/19 17:52, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > >> >> >> >> Jan 23, 2019, 4:49 AM by >> 61sundow...@gmail.com >> <mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com>>> : >> >>> On 23/01/19 07:37, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: >>> >>>> Jan 21, 2019, 12:03 AM by >>>> 61sundow...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com>>>>> : >>>> >>>>> The end to this madness is for renders to recognise that the >>>>> landuse=forest needs to be rendered differently from >>>>> natural=wood. >>>>> The essential difference between the two is that landuse >>>>> must have some human benefit, a produce, and a clear way of >>>>> doing that is to add the rendering of a axe to the tree. >>>>> >>>> >>>> (1) in a typical rendering this distinction is completely >>>> unimportant >>>> or at least not worth different rendering >>>> >>>> (2) other people have different mismatching ideas what is the >>>> "real" difference between natural=wood and landuse=forest >>>> >>>> (3) there is no consistent difference in how natural=wood and >>>> landuse=forest are used >>>> by mappers >>>> >>> >>> If the is no difference between the two then there will be no >>> problem depreciating landuse=forest. >>> >> >> First of all: "there many, many opinions how natural=wood and >> landuse=forest differ and >> some people think that his makes distinction between this tags >> useless" is not the same as >> "there is no difference". >> >> And landuse=forest is used more than three million times >> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=forest >> <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=forest> >> >> >>> If there is no produce than it is not landuse=forestry. >>> >>> >> Note that many are not using "forestry" to mean "using forest >> to >> produce wood". >> > > People within OSM are using landuse=forestry to mean that it provides some > produce for human benefit. > > The key 'landuse' is about the human use of that land. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse> > "used to describe the primary use of land by humans. " > > It is not what is there .. but what the use is by humans. > If there is concrete there, or a swamp .. that does not determine what > the use is. > The concrete could for a roadway, or a sports court. > The swamp could be a native reserve, or a waste water filtration system. > It is not changing that attempting to use landuse=forestry for "forest and associated area that is used to produce wood" mismatches with meaning of word forestry.
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