Tag:natural=wood

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Description: Natural woodland (trees). See also landuse=forest. Google definition User discussion

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Useful combination: landuse=forest name=* wood=coniferous wood=deciduous wood=mixed

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Used combinations in: Europe France Germany Italy Netherlands Spain Turkey Great-Britain Switzerland

Contents 1 Summary 2 Tags 3 Rendering 4 Attention

Summary

Natural woodland (trees). See also landuse=forest.

Tags

Applies to nodes and areas.

• natural=wood
• name=<name of the wood>
• wood=coniferous/deciduous/mixed

Rendering

Green area. When wood=* is set, show little coniferous or deciduous (or both) icons.

Attention

When tagging woodland, use this approach which is the commonly adopted one:

• Check if the area is "managed maintained or industrial used forest". This is almost always the case in Europe, with an emphasis on "managed maintained". Only very small areas are really left untouched and can be considered wild boondocks, primeval forest, virgin wood, national parks etc.
  • If it is managed forest, set both natural=wood and landuse=forest.
  • If it is really primeval forest with absolutely no forestry use, where nobody removes dead trees, plants new trees etc, set just natural=wood.
• The idea behind this is: "natural" defines what kind of natural feature is there. "landuse" defines what the land is used for. What the renderers make out of this and if it makes sense is another story.