Hi, On 08/19/2015 07:25 PM, stevea wrote: > This isn't extreme. Your backyard activity is consistent with the > definition of a forest: a land which is used for the production of > wood/lumber/timber/firewood/pulp/et cetera.
There is a problem with this definition; it is too broad. Even the seabed can fulfil some of these uses and we don't want to tag forests in the sea. This definition of a forest is unsuitable for OSM and should not inform our tagging. (Luckily the Wiki, which is not always reliable on these issues, says: "A forest or woodland is an area covered by trees.", and not: "A forest is an area where you could potentially find something to light a fire with".) There is also a problem with your interpretation of this already-unsuitable definition; you say that if land yields wood for any reason, it is "used in the production of wood". But I see a difference here between scavenging and agriculture. Just because there's wild berries somewhere, doesn't make the area an orchard. Just because you are legally allowed to pick up a branch that has fallen down from a tree, doesn't make this a lumber production facility. Your definition is unsuitable, and your interpretation of your unsuitable definition is extreme, and it seems like you're fighting political battles/squabbles on the back of OSM. Whether something is a park or a national reserve should not be subject to your personal interpretation of your country's constitution. To me, a lot of your bordering-on-political-rant argument reads like what we get in other areas of the world where people fight over control of areas; and we tell them: We map the reality on the ground, not some wishful thinking. You might see yourself as the (co)-owner of everything controlled by the US government but if they decide to put up a law, a fence, or a guard keeping you from enjoying what is "yours" then please take it up with them and don't use OSM to map what you would like reality to be. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
