Hello, there. I'm wondering how to map 2 things: 1) forest parcels: some people use a boundary relation with boundary=forest_compartment, but this seems mainly used in Eastern Europe, so geographically limited; others map each parcel with landuse=forest and then use ref=* to give the parcel number, which have the merit of making rendering easier, even if dividing a big forest in hundreds or thousands of parcels just to map the parcels seems, at first glance, an unnecessary division of the modelling as it is still the same forest, the parcels being essentially a human concern. I would say using the second possibility, but am I right? Is there other possibilities I should think about? 2) national/municipal forests: numerous forests, here in France, are municipal or national ones — the latter being called “forêt domaniale” —; many of them are labelled as such on road signs, and they are often named after this parameter — like “forêt domaniale de Dabo”, Dabo being the neighboring village —, so I think they should be mapped, but how? Should I, there again, use a boundary relation and tag it boundary=forest? This seems to be the wider-used solution and the most consistent one, but boundary=forest isn't in the uses of boundary relations documented on the wiki, and I read warnings on help.openstreetmap.org and MLs against such undocumented uses, so I prefer asking here: should I use this solution? Another?
NB: I read several possibilities on these questions, but the sources are conflicting and some are years old, so potentially deprecated, so I would like to know the current usage regarding these problems. Awaiting your answers, Regards. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
