On 17/07/18 06:31, Alan Grant wrote:
But why do these discussions/controversies/ambiguities matter for golf
courses? Are we talking about how to tag areas of tree cover that may
exist between the fairways and greens?
And those areas can and should be tagged natural=wood -it renders, it
does not imply a land use, and 'natural' is taken as both natural and
unnatural.
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 at 22:21, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com
<mailto:pla16...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Kevin Kenny
<kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com <mailto:kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 3:46 PM Mateusz Konieczny
<matkoni...@tutanota.com <mailto:matkoni...@tutanota.com>> wrote:
> landuse=forest in OSM is for tree-covered area, not for area
used for logging-related purposes
And we will keep having this discussion as long as there is no tag
that denotes the latter that doesn't get repurposed for the
former.
As I recall (recollection may be flawed) the last go-round, the
following seemed to be the case:
1) landuse=forest was intended for forestry, but the value
(forest) was badly chosen. Growing trees to be logged
is a use of the land.
2) landcover=trees wasn't currently rendered (my recollection may
be particularly bad on that).
3) Because landuse=forest is badly named (should have been
forestry) and therefore misleading, and because
landcover=trees isn't rendered, landuse=forest was being used for
two things.
4) Usual arguments about what constitutes a forest versus a wood
and other noise as the whole thread
degenerated.
My take on it: tag trees for logging purposes as landuse=forestry
(note spelling) and trees not for logging
purposes as landcover=trees or natural=wood as preferred (we can
have that argument another time). Then
change the wiki to say that landuse=forest is deprecated because
it gets misunderstood and misused, and point
to the alternatives. Introducing two new tags that supersede an
existing tag used ambiguously is the only hope of
making this sort of thing work.
Landuse=forestry is less likely to be misused because "forestry"
means logging and because we'd have
landcover=trees (which might even constitute something named "XYZ
Forest".
None of this stands a chance of happening unless OSM Carto agrees
to implement landuse=forestry and
landcover=trees. People don't use tags that don't render. Well,
for small, specialized things they do, but for big
areas of trees they won't. OSM Carto often won't implement new
tags because they're not used much; people don't
use new tags that don't render. Rinse, wash, repeat. What a
shame we don't have a forum like a mailing list where
we could all agree on sensible things to do and then they happen.
--
Paul
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