Hello, there. I would like to ask you this: how to correctly map a poplar plantation? It is widespread in the wet regions of France, but it's between I might add that I will update the wiki to give the according tag when someone shall have given it. Awaiting your answers, Regards. asked 15 Sep '15, 15:51  Penegal edited 15 Sep '15, 19:46  aseerel4c26 ♦ |
3 Answers:
This is straightforward: use either landuse=forest or natural=wood (following the most common usage in your area). Poplar plantations are for timber so clearly follow most definitions of landuse=forest & they form woods. I discussed the issue in rather more detail on my blog: http://sk53-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/plantations-woods-forests-or-something.html. The only other recommendation I made was to add the tag plantation=yes to enable such woodland areas to be distinguished. I suggest criteria for use of this tag in the blog post. Adding information about the genus, species and/or taxon helps as well. answered 16 Sep '15, 15:20  SK53 ♦ showing 5 of 9 show 4 more comments |
From landuse=orchard on the wiki: "An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production." ..so that doesn't seem to fit at all, unless people are eating the poplars. :) landuse=farmland says: "An area of farmland used for tillage and pasture (animals, vegetables, flowers, fruit growing)." ...so that doesn't fit either. I would go with landuse=forest. It best describes that it's land used for growing trees. answered 15 Sep '15, 18:10  alester 1 I have seen single trees tagged, i suppose a species tag could also be added to a forest area https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?search=tree+species&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go (15 Sep '15, 20:38) andy mackey |
Penegal consider lnduse=plant_nursery and read https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dplant_nursery Add plant=tree as well from the tagging examples. answered 15 Sep '15, 18:38  Hendrikklaas 4 in my opinion a plant nursery is where trees are sown from seed, often in containers, grown to a couple of meters, then sold for replanting. (15 Sep '15, 20:35) andy mackey Andy ther is no tag for sizes of the plants in the Wiki, but I recon that the planter grows them in different sizes in the same field. But its possible to use the height tag if you want it. I wont advice you to buy en tree of > 6 m., theyre expensive. (15 Sep '15, 23:01) Hendrikklaas |
+1. Except for reserves almost any forrest in Europe has some significance for timber, with more or less plantation like growing of trees.
How should I map the species, then?
In advanced mode of Potlatch2
species=poplar(for example) see this screenshot as it's easier to understand as a pic.Note: i didn't map this plantation, I would be surprised if
name=poplar plantationor evenpoplar_plantationis correct. it's probabley not natural it's managed as well, I did not save the species tag either. Note the tags should be in lower case letters, no capital letters and no_spaces ... i just wanted an example.@andy mackey: according to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:species the tag should be
genus:en=poplaror bettergenus=Populussince "poplar" is the genus but not the species. According to Taginfo the genus is usually specified with the first letter capitalized.Generic names must have an initial capital: it's part of the definition of a biological name. Anything else is wrong. For genus:en either Poplar or poplar will do.
Thanks i had remembered that the tall skinny Lombardy aren't like the ones in the match woods so there are a few types of poplar, so I half expected a comment on that, but I didn't know caps could ever be used in the tags.
@ Penegal, you could have followed the link in my answer to the Wiki pages :-(
@Hendrikklaas: sorry for that; when I saw your answer, I only focused on which tag to use for the plantation, not for the species.
So, I should go with
genus=Populus, and possibly usegenus:LANGto explicit the genus otherwise than with latin?Yes, you could add any language you know in the menu, go for it and its Wiki's description, also take a look here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names.