Sympathy from a pom! Deciduous and evergreen are orthogonal. Coniferous is not even quite a sub-set of evergreen as there are a few deciduous conifers, e.g. larch. So OSM to use evergreen vs. deciduous and show its innate superiority to OS?
Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Liz [mailto:ed...@billiau.net] Sent: 22 July 2009 21:38 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Do we care if its forest or wood? Natural worldmapping ... On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Alice Kaerast wrote: > There is also another property which hasn't been considered - type of > trees. Evergreen vs. Deciduous might be nice to know. Ordnance > survey maps differentiate between coniferous and non-coniferous and > has symbols for coppice and orchard. Another Venn diagram problem. Our trees are neither coniferous or deciduous, and the alternate is "mixed" Liz living in country covered in mallee, casuarina and occasional eucalypt _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
