Well, sorry, obviously I did an editing mistake and the "/Wikipedia defines 6 types of forest/" phrase jumped up in the wrong place: it should be just above the dotted list of forest types...
Sorry about the confusion... Sergio On 2019-01-23 01:52, Sergio Manzi wrote: > > Only about the cited point (/tagging natural forests as natural=wood/), I > think a natural forest should be tagged as natural=forest (/quite logically, > I would say.../), while natural=wood should be reserved for "small forests" > (/which is one of the possible meaning of "wood" in English, if I'm not > mistaken/). > > Also please consider that "forest" is very generic, and we could be willing > to more exactly define which kind of forest we are tagging (/and eventually > have it rendered accordingly/). > > To this extent the only way I see in the Wiki is to use the leaf_type=* tag > (/and only"broadleaved", "needleleaved" and "mixed" are defined as possible > values/).Wikipedia defines 6 types of forest: > > But to me a forest is not just "a lot of trees", but an entire ecosystem > dominated by trees. And those ecosystems can be very different between > different continents and latitudes. > > * Temperate needleleaf > * Temperate broadleaf and mixed > * Tropical moist > * Tropical dry > * Sparse trees and parkland > * Forest plantations > > I think we should be (somehow) able to tag those types. > > Please also check the sixth forest type described in Wikipedia (/Forest > plantations/): I think it coincide with the "forestry" concept we are talking > about in the thread (/landuse=forestry, or whatever.../). > > Cheers, > > Sergio > > > On 2019-01-23 01:00, Peter Elderson wrote: >> Natural forests could be preferably tagged as natural=wood ...
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