They are rendered in different colors in mapnik.
I think Landuse:forest is more accurate for the majority of forests in Israel, which are managed, if not planted.
Is there a way to batch-convert them from wood to forest?
talkat
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I agree that in most cases (e.g. all KKL forests) it’s better to tag them as landuse=forest.
There are 26 natural=wood in all of israel_and_palestine. Hardly worth the batch-convert… 
Below is the list of all of them.
They are needed to be looked at by a human, because some of them might be natural=wood.
talkat.
25549408
30805690
30805731
30947762
30948645
30948786
35264485
68245813
69358413
77731491
77731524
77731575
77731576
77731620
87358803
87358804
88270442
88279450
92062756
94264722
94452037
95986250
95986251
95987103
97699106
97704795
Done.
I have also added some more forest around the already existing once.
Thanks, Mr. Israel.
However, it turns out there is another variation:
Landuse:wood
Talkat, could you list these instances as well?
talkat
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I’ve reverted the ones in Lebanon back to natural=wood, as I’m guessing we know less than the mapper who created them, as he’s Lebanese…
talkat.
talkat
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Looking deeper into it there seems to be a lot of mess regarding landuse.
There are open areas tagged landuse:maddow which should be natural:scrub (בתה)
There are cultivated lands tagged landuse:farm which should be landusel:farmland
Another issue is military bases, some have been mapped, some not, can more of them be mapped without breaking the Israeli law?
talkat
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See older discussion here.
It has some good insights.
Some of the conclusions:
There’s no way to block non-Israelis to add military features.
Some military bases have road signs leading to them.
The information is freely and easily available in other internet resouces (e.g. wikimapia, wikipedia, google satellite imagery, etc.)
Most military features are “uninteresting” to terrorists. Malls, schools, cinemas, theatres, etc. are more “interesting” to them, and we’re not going to stop mapping those…
talkat.
I was actually aiming for the opposite.
Can I, as an Israeli, map some military facilities without breaking the law.
talkat
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Would you mind repeating this question in the relevant thread I linked to?
I don’t see how this discussion is related to forests in Israel…
Thanks, talkat.
landuse:farm => landusel:farmland
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I think this tag is quite new. I’m changing them when I see one, but I don’t see a reason to go through them manually.
They are rendered the same way and used for “almost” the same purpose.
landuse:maddow => natural:scrub
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Makes sense for me. But I think maddow is just used a couple of times.
talkat
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Generally speaking, we have few meadows in Israel, heavily grazed scrubs turn to desert instead of meadows. What we almost never have (except in the high Hermon) in heaths. I’ve seen these tags as well.
talkat
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We currently have only one of those.
I’m guessing there shouldn’t be any natural heath areas near Netanya…
talkat.
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