I wrote that I did use the LPI topographic map. This map displays different kinds of forest with different shades of green.

And I recommended the six map legend to you to get an impression of those different greens. Please feel free to read more carefully before accusing others of a violation of law.

> I did not make the wikipage
Thanks for raising the page Mapping_Landuse_in_Australia on the list. That page is linked from the Tips for Aussies page, please see osm.wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Mapping_Landuse_in_Australia

> I have now added a large area of trees - this replaces the smaller area you added.
With deleting the scrub area between the forest and the meadow you created an area of "white" landuse. I see natural=scrub as perfect tagging for those sparsely wooden areas. Is something bad with this?

>it is not something that OSM maps.
As far as I know the founders and the community of OSM had a "free to do" approach. For example flood prone areas are defined like administrative borders in Europe. Why shouldn't the OSM map them?

A doubtful wiki page exists on this issue. It has three edits since 2010: osm.wiki/Mapping_Landuse_in_Australia Please consider deleting it in favour for osm.wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines

Meadows are clearly visible by the presence of fences and the "shortness" of the gras. If in doubt, check the grass on other imagery made at a different time of the year.

@1 I beg to differ but in this case I removed the landuse key.

@2 That was indeed bad tagging.

The issues above are solved with changeset/80520809

@3 This general problem exceeds the discussion within a changeset, please see changeset/79344998.
Final resolution shoul dbe noted in the Wiki.

way/763346427 is the northern border of the forest relation/10591123. You probably mean this relation in comparison to relation/10591122.

I did not use the imagery but the LPI topographic map. This map has four different kinds of "land with trees":
1. Closed forest: 80-100% crown cover.
2. Open forest: 50-80% crown cover
3. Woodland: 20-50% crown cover.
4. Pine forest
For an example of the different shades of green please see the legend at http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/etopo/geopdf/25k/8825-2N%20WANDELLA.pdf.

I mapped the Closed and Open forest as forest and the Woodland as scrub.

As I learned in the meantime, natural=wood is preferred in Australia for this kind of forests. I corrected this with changeset/80518326

Do you see the need of further changes for the Woodland areas tagged as scrub?

Warin61 wrote:
> Deleted 'path'.
Why didn't you change to highway=track? By simply deleting you killed a lot of data.

> A fire truck does not say on roads or paths.
What means "say" here? A typo?

aharvey wrote:
> since it's from a copyrighted source.
The copyright of this FB video restricts the redistribution of the video itself. It does NOT prohibit the use of information from within the video. The gathered information, here coordinates, can freely used by anyone.

I assume that the Australians manage trees standing near their houses to reduce the fire risk.
If that is generally wrong, then natural=wood would be correct.

Source for the "Sugarbum Fairy Farm" name from https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sugarbum-Fairy-Farm-Cobargo-Nsw-2550/266124807342611

Source for the location of the burnt house is the intact house of the neighbour (way/764873470) in the background, shown in first three seconds of this video https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-m-dreading-it-locals-return-to-devastated-cobargo-20200110-p53qcz.html

Location is verified by
1. The brick garden walls shown in above video and on https://www.realestate.com.au/property/224-wandella-rd-cobargo-nsw-2550
2. The impressive roof structure is clearly visible on any aerial imagery of this address.

The surface=compacted for way/764873469 was taken from an aerial. But other aerials show different surfaces. I'm going to withdraw this tag.

Please see the "Sailing and Canoeing" section on this page: http://www.cobargoscouts.org.au/cobargo-jamborette-2016-photos-page-3.html

Please feel free to add a sailing tag, too, when you are restoring the canoeing tag.

Bedauerlicherweise wurde mit dieser Änderung der Weg way/253061674/history mit den Knoten der angrenzenden Landnutzungsflächen verbunden. Ich ändere dies zurück und stelle den Weg wieder frei.

> I deleted them because of inappropriate features.

Then please check twice what you are doing. It is misleading to comment a changeset with "Improved incorrect edits." while in reality data is deleted and not corrected/improved.

> How to tag burned woodlands? - osm.wiki/Talk:Tag:natural%3Dwood#Burned_Woodland

For wooden areas some options are shown but a good solution is still not given.

What is landuse=brownfield? - landuse=brownfield

For urban areas – which are in focus here – landuse=brownfield still is the best option.

Please do not delete data form OSM.

If you disagree with my use of the "name" key, you may want to change it to "description". We discussed this in changeset/79344998

I reinstated these two areas in changeset/79379424 Please feel free to add a comment.

> Please, do not use dates in names.
Ok, description is better.

>Also, there is incorrect to use landuse=brownfield.
What is your suggestion to tag a burned down property which has not been rebuild?

>Why did you draw this cross (WAY: 761755058)? Is this original shape?

This shape fits best to the information I currently can get.

I saw it on TV! Thanks for your remark. I changed the tag node/7107665991 in changeset/79353006

Bist Du sicher, dass die Wolfsbergquelle westlich des Feldweges entspringt? Dort gibt es östlich einen tiefer gelegenen, eingefassten Bereich, in dem das Wasser zu Tage tritt.

Der Notüberlauf ist eine gepflasterte Rinne, die den Weg auf der Dammkrone offen kreuzt. Der Notüberlauf ist ca. alle 20 Jahre aktiv und daher nicht als Furt eingetragen.

Weiter erläutert in changeset/75533962

Deir ez-Zor is a war zone. The Bing aerials are several years old. The Wikipedia article about the bridge you edited tells that this bridge over the Euphrat is destroyed. The motorway bridge is destroyed too. Only the Russian mobile bridge is passable. See changeset/74759959

Bitte prüfen: Die Hafenhubbrücke hat den Straßennamen "Wittenberger Straße" erhalten.

Vollzogen mit 68857557

Falls einige Flächen tatsächlich nur abgeweidete werden, wäre meadow=pasture angezeigt. Eine dreistufige Unterteilung ist übertrieben. Mit dem Regelfall meadow=agriculture dürfte das ausreichend sein. Dem Luftbild nach war es die Zeit für den Silage-Schnitt. Der liegt früher als der Heuschnitt. Auch aus diesem Grund ist eine tiefere Unterteilung kaum sinnvoll.

Inhaltlich ist das agricultural=cutting auch falsch, weil es sich auf den Zugangstag osm.wiki/DE:Key:agricultural bezieht.

Ich werde es daher löschen.

English version:
Hereby agricultural=cutting was set for meadows which already contain meadow=agricultural. This might mean that it is allowed to walk on those areas only to mow them down. However, probably it is an error. Affected are more changesets till 48038764.