In haste I took you reference to SIX maps to mean you used their maps ...In the area that you mapped with scrub and wood/forest the LPI Topo map only has one shade of green ... using JOSM 15690. Arr using gama and colourfulness I can get some variation .. but it is not good in terms of resolution.
Looking at the imagery ... the difference is not there for some of it and other patches show some variation - but not where it was mapped. In addition the imagery has more detail than the topo for the trees (and power lines). I think it should be left for a ground survey for more detail.

We do NOT have permission to use SIX maps. Cease using that source as it is a copyright violation. Anything you added from that source should be deleted.

The topo map OSM has permission to use does not have that detail.

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I did not make the wikipage osm.wiki/Mapping_Landuse_in_Australia. I will raise it on the Australian mail list and see what they say.. the tagging guidelines has no info on mapping landuse. The pages are not linked.. I think there has been no Australian input into that landuse page...

I have now added a large area of trees - this replaces the smaller area you added. I have left the 'burnt' relation ... but like lots of other things.. it is not something that OSM maps. Other things OSM does not map? Flood prone areas, areas of land mines, if a shop sells bread or not ... lots of things.

Hey,
OSM has several quality assurance tools, I use them to check my work and happened across this as it is an 'error'. My 'errors' are usually much larger and more horrific... because some of the things I do are larger in area.
I'll make a few changes today and you should then examine it! I have never been there so I can only estimate what there is from the imagery available. You are the expert on what is there, not I.

I don't know. I don't usually use the topo map, just the imagery. I'll have to think on it. Scrub to me are low growing plants <3m height , that is not necessarily 'woodland'.

I am revising the area as the local National Park carries the natural=wood tag and that is wrong - the trees do not start and end at the National Park boundaries.

In Australia the landuse=forest tends to be used for areas where trees are harvested for timber, rather than just the presence of trees.

Mapping 'meadow', well I could not do that without more information ... an area of grass looks the same if it is used for pasture or not.

hI,

There is no difference between the area identified as scrub -relation 10591122 and landuse=forest relation/763346427. See the LPI Imagery..

Hi,

The relation with "landuse=forest;scrub;meadow" is not appropriate.

1) landuse can only have one value, not more than one.

2) the area does not carry that name.

3) OSM does not map burnt areas.

Please delete this information

And cease adding burnt areas.

Problem with way/768742227, intersecting segments.

See https://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=areas&lon=150.68980&lat=-33.74825&zoom=18

Looking at it .. I don't think there is a hole in that building at all, so there is no need for some internal segments.

Comment from Hb- 28 minutes ago
Warin61 wrote:
> Deleted 'path'.
Why didn't you change to highway=track? By simply deleting you killed a lot of data.

Because I don't know that it is a track. Fire vehicles don't stick to tracks. They can and do pick there way through things. The video is too poor to say that this is a track. The fact that is not on the LPI Base Map to me says it is very questionable that it is there.

Comment from Hb- 28 minutes ago

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

It should be "stay" .. missed a "t". Apologies.

The facebook page does not appear to give a specific location for Sugarbum Fairy Farm.

It may have been a track at some point. As it is not on the LPI Base Map I would think at best is is an abandoned track. Splitting hairs: an OSM path is not wide enough for a vehicle...

Some more errors.

The power is carried on POLES not TOWERS. See the OSM wiki for the differences. Change these.

The line voltage would not be possible to judge from the listed sources, delete these.

As you have not responded to a comment from 21 days ago I will refer this changeset to the DWG.

Deleted land covers. 'Scrub' looks to be not scrub.. possibly heath or grass. 'Grass' could be heath .. no way to tell without further information - preferably survey.

No source for Sugarbum Fairy Farm. Where did you get this information as to where the farm is?

way/764873469 is tagged surface=compacted. Source of this information?

Deleted 'path'. A fire truck does not say on roads or paths.

I don't think this is a swamp. The LPI Base Map shows this as different from a swamp rendering. It also shows it as a larger area, so I have expanded it and deleted the tag swamp, leaving it as wetland.

The way: 761755058 resembles a christian cross, has no source and appears completely artificial. There is no source justification for it. Remove it.

OSM landuse=brownfield is NOT for burnt areas! OSM does not have tagging for burnt areas. Please remove all of your landuse=brownfield entries.

Where crop cycling occurs the land use is not forestry, but farmland ...

Agreed that mapping from imagery is a good start .. but I would map what I see .. trees .. and I would not map them as a land use without more information.

I would not assume the land is owned by anyone, or any group of people and see no point in any discussion of this.

My understanding is that a 'village crop area' is worked until the soil becomes less productive, then a new area is opened up and the old area left to regenerate. So no 'village crop area' is permanent, it may exist for some years and then it is moved.

Some say that unless you are prepared to update the information on a regular basis then you should not map it. I take the view that some indication of what to expect is better than nothing.

Presently, landuse=forest and natural=wood has no effect on most rendering. However the presence of trees does not match any present OSM interpretation of landuse=forest,.

Hi,

It cannot be determined if the trees are a land use .. or just tress. natural=wood is a far better tag in this circumstance.

More fixing.
Drawing 'on top' .. ok .. but delete the things 'underneath' when finished!

Hi,

The Scout Camp Kariong presently shows it going over into the National Park (as shown on the LPI base Map). The area shown on the LPI Base Map is far larger than that mapped into OSM, while not all of it is used for camping .. it could be said that it is a "recreation ground"?