If we are going to use landcover=forest/wood/ to unify the meaning of "trees on the ground", then the current implementation of forest - the bright green with tree markers - should probably use the same color of "wood" green, as they are all just a large amount of trees. The forest still uses the the tree icon overlay, to show usage, just like Nature Reserve has the NR overlay, or Zoo with the Z overlay.
If we're gonna seperate conditions on the ground from usage, then it seems that having a single color that means "trees" is a good idea. That would also free up a more visible green for another use on the map, maybe something distinctly manmade, like crop=rice, crop=corn, crop=vegetable, etc. (and leave the brown for wheat). Just an idea. There are large sections of cleared and replanted cedars here in Japan, and it is actively logged - so it has a different land use - but it is al just hills covered with trees. The only time most people notice or care about the difference is in winter, when the cedars stay dark green and the native mixed maple forest loses it's leaves - the mountains become grey and black striped. Javbw On Sep 25, 2014, at 4:18 AM, Andrew Guertin <andrew.guer...@uvm.edu> wrote: > On 09/24/2014 01:10 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> 2014-09-24 18:22 GMT+02:00 John Sturdy <jcg.stu...@gmail.com>: >> >>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Guertin >>> <andrew.guer...@uvm.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> landcover=forest anywhere there's trees on the ground >>> >> there is already a proposal in the wiki and the key is in use: >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/landcover#values >> >> please not ~10k trees vs. 11 forest (i.e. factor 1000) > > Sure, landcover=trees does seem better. > > I wrote that out because it had been bouncing around in my head for a while, > but I hadn't put much research into it. I'm not surprised people have pointed > out problems with it (though I still think it's a good starting point and an > improved version would be a good way to fix our problems). > > --Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
