Tag:landuse=forest
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+/- landuse=forest
Managed forest or woodland plantation (other languages). See also natural=wood.
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Managed forest or woodland plantation (other languages).
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Tags
Applies to nodes and areas
landuse=forest + name=<name of the forest> + wood=coniferous/deciduous/mixed + type=deciduous/evergreen/shrubs/mixed
Rendering
Green area. When wood=* is set, show little broad leafed or coniferous (or both) icons.
Attention
When tagging woodland, two approaches are advocated by different groups:
Approach 1
- 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.
Approach 2
- natural=wood is used to mark areas covered by trees.
- landuse=forest is used to mark areas of land used for forestry. That is, where humans commercially plant, cut, and harvest trees for lumber, paper etc.
- woodland=virgin is used to mark areas of virgin woodland unmanaged by man.
Approach 3
- wood=* is used to mark the presence or absence of trees.
- natural=wood is used to mark areas of unmanaged forest. It implies wood=yes
- landuse=forest is used to mark areas of managed forest. It implies wood=yes
Discussion
The use of these tags has become the subject of much debate due to inconsistent application, and wooly term usage.
Advantages of each approach
- Approach 1
- More commonly used after a bot was used to retag existing woodland this way.
- Approach 2
- Tags appear consistent – having trees on is not a "land use".
- Allows for woods to be marked in areas where other landuses exist (e.g. areas of trees in the middle of a quarry)
- Does not require the tagger to make a distinction between managed and virgin woodland, which can be near impossible to make even for someone surveying the area.
- Allows for tagging of areas of commercial forestry which are not currently wooded (landuse=forest + natural=scrub).
- Is more consistent with tagging of other features such as reservoirs, which are tagged natural=water, along with their land use.
- Approach 3
- As for Approach 2
- Uses only existing tags.
- Existing tagging largely retains its meaning.
- Further landuses might be specified to distinguish between forest managed for decorative/leisure use, lumber/pulp production, or ecological improvement.
Related tags
Related OSM projects
Wiki for all environment and natural tags and projects Environmental_OSM
