Talk:Tag:man made=cutline

We should also add:

cutline=hunting

Very common here in Vogelsberg. Maybe somewhere else?

Cutlines for motorized use

There are two other possible and wanted uses of cutline:

• cutline=loggingmachine: Tracks after modern logging machines that are often impassable by bicycle and slow to walk by foot due to lopwood. Interesting to map as it will be a landmark for several years in many cases, and there are interest of mapping environmental damage.
• cutline=piste: Used for nordic skiing tracks in the winter, but with no visible track/path in the summer time.

vibrog 10:40, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Cutline above pipeline

Cutline also can be positioned above an underground pipeline. How would it be tagged? On the same way? What about rendering?

Gaps in forests do not replace cutlines

Hi Martianfreeloader, I've reverted your recent change to this page which added "Do not use this tag if the surrounding forest is already mapped as two parts with the cut line as a gap in between.". This seems incorrect. Inferring a cutline from two shapes (that can be multipolygons) could be very tricky or even impossible for many data consumers. A cutline is also a very specific man-made feature. A gap in forest areas could be from natural causes, or another (different) man-made feature like a railway track. Additionally, a gap cannot have any semantic meaning added, like the type of the cutline. --Richlv (talk) 20:00, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

OK, to me that's a bit like mapping a natural=tree_row on top of a forest; but it doesn't matter that much, I guess. --Martianfreeloader (talk) 17:20, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

There might be cases where that would make sense as well :)

For example, if it is a historic tree line that is protected and has a name or some other such edge case. With cutlines, it is a bit more... clear cut (eh) due to the aforementioned reasons - hopefully those make sense. --Richlv (talk) 20:03, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for clarification. Could you perhaps add this to the wiki page so others won't make the same mistake as I did? --Martianfreeloader (talk) 05:11, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

That's a great idea, done so. --Richlv (talk) 07:46, 12 August 2025 (UTC)