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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