Timeline for Maps showing forest type
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| Jan 4, 2022 at 13:23 | history | edited | nrainer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2022 at 20:27 | comment | added | Chris H | @phipsgabler I also like OpenTopoMap, but for this OSM seems to use clearer symbols, and the cycling view can be used to provide contours. The underlying data is the same. Checking (logging in to OSM where I'm an occasional editor) a lot of what's tagged as mixed forest actually hasn't had the leaf type specified, so the default is implicitly "mixed". This is partly because a lot of forests at least in the UK are mapped as rather large areas, not broken down into individual plantations, and on that scale the one I cycled round yesterday would class as mixed. | |
| Jan 3, 2022 at 13:16 | comment | added | phipsgabler | Swisstopo is awesome! There is another forest map, "Wald swissTLM3D" under the Basiskarten, which is more recent and displays forest density. If you overlay that with the Waldmischung map, it is a pretty good picture. "Arealstatistik Bedeckung" might also be helpful. | |
| Jan 3, 2022 at 12:34 | history | edited | nrainer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2022 at 10:20 | comment | added | phipsgabler | There's also OpenTopoMap, which does a better job of rendering OSM as a topographical map. It may be respecting vegetation features more than openstreetmap.com, I don't know. But then it looks like most of Austria is defaulted to Mischwald... | |
| Jan 3, 2022 at 10:17 | comment | added | nrainer |
The leaf_type tag should be shown when inspecting an object using "Query features" (example: openstreetmap.org/relation/13532864#map=14/46.7609/15.0112). However, the tag is not necessarily defined for all objects.
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| Jan 3, 2022 at 10:13 | vote | accept | z8080 | ||
| Jan 3, 2022 at 10:05 | comment | added | z8080 | Amazing, thank you! Ironically, the screenshot I included actually did provide a clue as to the leaf type: it was a "mixed woodland" icon. So OSM does encode this after all - however, testing this for the case of woodlands I know well reveals this is not very accurate. For instance, the forest around St Egyden in Lower Austria is probably around 95% pine, yet it is unhelpfully shown as mixed. Another strange thing is that the leaf_type key/feature is NOT shown in Nearby Features, when doing a Query on a point in the woodland area! | |
| Jan 3, 2022 at 9:28 | history | edited | nrainer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jan 3, 2022 at 9:03 | history | answered | nrainer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |