On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 21:03, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't like landuse=logging as the top-level tag, partly because I > live in an area where forests are indeed managed for other uses (for > example, a 'sugar bush' managed to grow maple trees for syrup and > sugar). There are also a number of forest parcels for which the > signage makes the fact of management clear, but determining the > purpose may require more research. It's best to have the mapper be > able to map *something* even if it's imprecise. > Now we're veering off into a different problem. Related, perhaps. Worth being able to tag, probably. The purpose of landuse=logging or equivalent is to be able to mark an area which sometimes has trees, sometimes has saplings and sometimes has trunks. To allow somebody to map an area that may show as all trees now but may not in future aerial imagery without a later mapper redrawing that boundary because an area of trees has been felled. Or to map an area that may show as trees and clearing now but it is known to the mapper that the cleared area has been logged and will be replanted without some future mapper saying "That's wrong, there aren't any trees there." If we ever decide on an appropriate tagging scheme (landuse=logging or landuse=forestry + forestry=logging or whatever) and it gets rendered in some way that is distinct from natural= wood (say an axe icon at the centre) then it will be useful for consumers. Instead of "There should/should not be trees there, we must be lost" it's "Ah, that land is for logging so there may or may not be trees there, so we may not be lost." >From that perspective, maple trees for syrup are a different problem. Possibly still nice to be able to map in some way, for completeness, but you wouldn't expect half the trees to get chopped down one day. If we can kill both birds with one stone by having landuse=forestry + forestry=whatever then fine, but I'd like to kill the logging bird as soon as possible because it keeps popping up here every couple of months and crapping everywhere. -- Paul
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