Changeset: 117791476
Change of landcover tagging from landuse=forest to natural=wood
Closed by ottwiz
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created_by | JOSM/1.5 (18379 en) |
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note | The reason for changing it is to decrease the amount of remaining landuse=forest multipolygons in WV (and around western VA), since all the mappers use natural=wood tagging |
source | Bing |
Discussion
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Comment from ottwiz
By the way, I fixed up some multipolygon problems like overlapping or unclosed way or "area=yes" on wooded multipolygons when it's not needed.
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Comment from RunTrails
Most of this is in the GW National Forest which is owned and managed by the Dept of Agriculture as actual wood crop. So you're free to split out the non-DoAg stuff as Wood if you know the land ownership. Otherwise I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish.
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Comment from ottwiz
Okay maybe you're right in this case but all of the taggings here, even in Shenandoah National Park and Jefferson National Forest is natural=wood.
(btw the fact we have landuse=forest and natural=wood is confusing)
The thing I'm doing is to reduce the amount of landuse=forest ways if it's unnecessary, to keep the numbers down in ohsome.org's dashboard calculator, since you can generate reports such as wood area by tagging (landuse=forest and natural=wood). Before this, WV had ~16-17 thousand km2 of natural=wood, ~1,5k km2 of landuse=forest tagged ways, relations. Now this 1,5k km2 has decreased significantly to around 400-500 km2 I assume which is great (since in JOSM i have a plugin for calculating ways - measurement)I just like matching up the tagging. In my opinion, I only tag stuff as landuse=forest if it clearly shows that it's been under forestry like forests in Alabama(however I got told from asdfjkll that they're tagging everything there as natural=wood), or I know the exact border of the forest section, for example, in Hungary it's easy because we have named mountain ranges where we also associate the forest boundary with it so that is actually aligning to the forest boundary.
However, in the US it's not the same, because most of the forests are not touched and they're in massive amounts, even if they're operated by DoA or similar authorities. As I checked all over in Virginia, natural=wood is used everywhere, so this is why I changed the tagging. I hope now this makes everything clear.
(and I remember once being told to use natural=wood but that was waaay back in 2020)
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