Tag:natural=wood
 natural = wood
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Tree-covered area (a 'forest' or 'wood') 
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Tree-covered area (a 'forest' or 'wood'). Used by some mappers to tag only certain woodland areas with limited or no forestry management, but often used for any tree-covered area.
This tag and landuse=forest are largely synonymous. Some mappers use this tag for any area covered in trees, while others use it for woodland not impacted by human maintenance. This problem is explained in the page Forest.
This tag (as well as landuse=forest) should be applied only to the areas actually covered with trees. For the entire named forest complex (including its ![[W]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Tango_style_Wikipedia_Icon_no_shadow.svg/16px-Tango_style_Wikipedia_Icon_no_shadow.svg.png){kind=icon}
glades, stand variations...), use boundary=forest; for forest compartments, use boundary=forest_compartment.
How to map
Draw an area to match the shape of the woodland and tag it with natural=wood. If an exact match is infeasible then approximate shape is acceptable. As the last resort place a node instead of an area.
Additional tags
name=*- name of the woodlandleaf_type=broadleaved/needleleaved/mixed- describes the type of leaves / needlesleaf_cycle=deciduous/evergreen/mixed- describes the phenology of leaves / needlesmanaged=yes/no- proposed to specifically distinguish managed or unmanaged woodlandsoperator=*- for managed or protected woodlands (you should probably useboundary=forest+operator, which was designed for some such cases)species=*- for a list of all species (scientific name) in the areagenus=*ortaxon=*- probably more suitable for wooded surfaces (e.g a oak forest will have the tagsgenus=Quercusandgenus:en=Oak)plant_community=*
Carto rendering of subtags
If leaf_type=* is also set, this can be indicated by appropriate symbols for conifers, deciduous trees and mixed forests.
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leaf_type=broadleaved
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Broadleaved woodland (doesn't mean deciduous). |  
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leaf_type=needleleaved
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Needleleaved woodland. |  _06_ies.jpg)
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leaf_type=mixed
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Mixed woodland. |  
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leaf_type=leafless
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Leafless vegetation. |  
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See also
- Forest for relation to
landuse=forest wetland=swampnatural=tree- for a single treenatural=scrub- scrubland, with bushes and shrubs- Vegetation - summary of tags for various types of trees and plants
boundary=forestandboundary=forest_compartment, which allow to map non-wooded areas as part of the surrounding forest if these non-wooded areas are considered so
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