On 27/12/2015 12:19 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
I think you are overreaching a bit on this. For one thing, not all forests are for wood production - rubber tree plantations for example are for extracting sap from trees.

Had not thought of that.
Some trees produce nuts, others fruit .. they would be landuse=orchard. With landcover=trees.

Natural=wood seems perfectly correct to me for stands of trees in a more or less "natural" state whereas landcover=trees implies, at least to me, an area with planted trees that are not being used for sap, or lumber, etc., but more for their decorative or shading effect.

Err.. I think your confusing landUSE with landCOVER.

To me landcover=trees simply means there are trees there. It does not say what they are used for.

So suitable tags for an area used for lumber would be
landuse=forestry
landcover=trees

An area of trees for decoration, recreation
landcover=trees
landuse=recreation ?

How are rubber trees tagged now? I would tag
landcover=trees
landuse=orchard ... ? Don't know. Possibly landuse=forestry with the definition of trees used to produce products (e.g. wood), excluding production of fruit/nuts (see orchard)?

What's your motivation do do this?

Attempt to make clear what tags to use for a 'forest' ...

For example http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:landuse%3Dforest#Forest_vs_Wood suggest the density of the plants is the distinguishing thing between natural=wood and landuse=forest.

The implication of landuse=foresty is fairly clear?
And I hope be translated without too much blurring of the intention?



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On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 7:49 AM, ajt1...@gmail.com <mailto:ajt1...@gmail.com> <ajt1...@gmail.com <mailto:ajt1...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    On 27/12/2015 00:43, Warin wrote:

        Hi,
        The present multiple applications landuse=forest has me
        thinking that a new tag of

        landuse=forestry

        maybe best to focus this new tag onto a specific forest use -
        that of wood production.


    For info, I have used that (once!):

    http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/370079612

        Rendering
        The rendering of landuse=forestry should incorporate a brown
        axe onto the original forest rendering to show that it is for
        wood production.


    I've not tried rendering it though.

    Cheers,

    Andy




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