On 10/07/2010 10:22 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > That's why it's landuse=forest, not landcover=forest. A > landuse=residential area isn't all houses (it includes yards,
That's why it is not landuse=house. A landuse=residential contains all things that belong to a typical residential area, like buildings, gardens etc. The buildings themselves are often tagged seperately. > driveways, garages, streets, sidewalks) and a landuse=forest area > isn't all trees. But this is the way it is used. I've never seen a "landuse=forest" that's not mainly trees. If a national forest as a legal entity contains areas without trees I would not tag these areas as landuse=forest but as grassland, farmland and so on. Even big imports like Corine Land Cover France use it this way: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Corine_Land_Cover/Tagging_scheme I know that legally a field may belong to a national forest, but it shouldn't be tagged as a forest because it isn't one. Every topographic or street map I know would show a border of a national forest as a sort of border line, but the areas where trees grow as forest. So the national park should be tagged as boundary=national_park or similiar. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
