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While surveying i crossed a small isolated field about 300 metres square ( not part of a large forest ). On Bing and other maps it is well wooded and mapped as a forest. On the ground half of the field is bare and i suspect may become more truck parking while the other half as what looks like christmas trees of <50cm. Forests are a landmark when navigating so forest does not seem correct to me so should it be a plant nursery or something else? http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.33627/-0.29386

asked 05 Jul '16, 07:45

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edited 05 Jul '16, 07:47

The small plantation isn't there any longer the Trucking company uses it for storage. The footpaths position seems to have slightly different route each time I visit, but at least it is signed each time and still walkable.

(07 Aug '21, 21:25) andy mackey

Did you perchance take a picture? From your description I think that landuse=plant_nursery would indeed be the correct tag.

Although it's also possible that a forest was clear-cut and is now being replanted, once it's grown back to "looking more like a forest" then landuse=forest would be more appropriate, but I agree that it seems an odd tag to apply to knee-high trees.

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answered 05 Jul '16, 07:52

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edited 05 Jul '16, 07:58

Is there a tag like landuse=bushes or something similar?

(05 Jul '16, 10:49) Ukraroad

There's natural=scrub wich is often useful.

Note that to many people, landuse=forest means forestry activity. It implies tree cover (natural=wood) if nothing else is specified (like natural=scrub), but it is still valid even when the trees have recently been cut.

Especially when dealing with coniferous trees (which grow fast), it's hard to keep track of actual vegetation maturity in forestry areas. Satellite imagery often take longer to be updated than it takes a scrub to turn into a forest.

(05 Jul '16, 11:29) Vincent de P... ♦

If it was part of a big forest, so now a clearing, i would probably leave it as a forest but it's not higher than rapeseed or corn crop so to have a wood on on the map would be misleading.If it is going to be cut at 1.5 metres for christmas trees it will never be a landmark.

(05 Jul '16, 16:14) andy mackey

I would tag it as a regular forest. One of the largest oak forests in the US is in Monahans Sandhills State Park in West Texas. When mature the shin oaks can reach up to 4 feet (< 2 meters).

(05 Jul '16, 22:13) Longhorn256

Thanks, i looked them up, we live and learn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_havardii

(05 Jul '16, 23:41) andy mackey

I tend to map "places where trees are, have been, or are going to be grown" as landuse=forest, so this would include your "knee high trees" as well i suspect.

There's a proposed tagging scheme for forestry (in Russian) here. I found out about it via the comments on a diary entry - some of the other comments there are worth reading too.

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answered 06 Jul '16, 00:20

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Classification of real world is fraught. If your intention is to make the information useful to ded reckoning, it could be agriculture/forest products. If for landscape analysis (e.g., total of this and that in a jurisdiction, etc), it could depend on the zoning and/or owner (gov't private, etc).

I think it depends on the purpose of OSM? Does anyone know the answer? I'm just starting and am looking for fundamentals like that.

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