On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Tyler<tyler.ritc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why is landuse=forest not appropriate for parks/forests with the same uses >> but with a "lower" administrative classification? landuse=forest is for >> managed land with trees on it regardless of who manages it. > > Because they often aren't forests. (I said similar use) > Sometimes they're scrubland, beach, plains, dunes, rocky craginess, > volcanos, river deltas...
So tag them with their appropriate landuse or natural tag. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features The National Seashore would be natural=beach for example. Park might be in the name, but fail to describe what's on the ground and that's OK. > The list goes on and on. I take landuse=forest to > mean a managed forest meaning they're harvesting trees, moss or whatever, > such as many state natural resource department's forest land or the National > Forest lands (excluding wilderness areas) in the United states. And often > parks at lower administrative classifications are set aside for recreation, > not natural preservation or for logging, farming, grazing or harvesting any > natural resources. > As the case is in coastal states, there are coastal state parks consisting > solely of beaches, and in the southwest of the United States there are state > parks consisting solely of desert. natural=desert > Additionally landuse=forest doesn't accurately portray all of the Bureau of > Land Managements lands--which account for 1/8th of the area of the US, of > which landuse=forest is only appropriate for ~20%. It also would be > entirely inappropriate for the United States National Grasslands, which are > like the National Forests in almost every aspect, except that they are > grasslands (and tagging them as such doesn't distinguish them from > surrounding non-public use/recreation grasslands). Then use the boundary key. If you way up each of the unique sections, then create a multipolygon relation out of all of the boundary ways and additional multipolygons for each of the various landuses or ground covers. Adam _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us