<div dir="ltr">There is a pretty complete wiki [1] page for US NPS tagging. Looks like we could use some clarification of Ranger Station, but the visitor center is mapped as <tt dir="ltr" style="font-family:monospace,Courier;font-size:13.9840002059937px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.2000007629395px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(221,221,238)"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:information" title="Key:information" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">information</a>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:information%3Doffice" title="Tag:information=office" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">office</a></tt><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.1599998474121px;line-height:19.2000007629395px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"> </span><tt dir="ltr" style="font-family:monospace,Courier;font-size:13.9840002059937px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.2000007629395px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(221,221,238)"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tourism" title="Key:tourism" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">tourism</a>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dinformation" title="Tag:tourism=information" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">information</a>.</tt><div><br></div><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_National_Park_Service_Tagging">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_National_Park_Service_Tagging</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Dave Swarthout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveswarthout@gmail.com" target="_blank">daveswarthout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It sounds like the original meaning of ranger_station might have described what I would term a Visitor Center. After reading these responses to my post, and realizing that there are many parks with visitor centers (even here in Thailand) that cannot be tagged under the present system, its obvious to me that we need to add a new tag amenity=visitor_center. Visitor Centers range from simple to quite lavish (think Yellowstone, Denali NPs); these are definitely not ranger stations.<div><br></div><div>To me, an American, a ranger_station is a more work oriented place, as Javbw suggests, where "park rangers meet, safety services (first aid, search&rescue) are handled, and the rangers actually reside during the season" while a visitor center has displays, an information desk or other such facility, restrooms, telephones, and shops.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:33 AM, johnw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Russell Deffner <<a href="mailto:russell.deffner@hotosm.org" target="_blank">russell.deffner@hotosm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Maybe someone can confirm this, but I think it might actually be the difference in language from the Park Service versus Forest Service; i.e. in a National Forest you find Ranger Stations, in the Parks you find Visitor Centers?<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">=Russ<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div></span><div>good question - But I think we should have a generic term for all of them. The name=* can differentiate them from each other. </div><div><br></div><div>I always think of larger camps where they might have a toll booth at the entrance for campers, an information kiosk for hikers and campers, </div><div><br></div><div>and a true ranger station where the park rangers meet, safety services (first aid, search&rescue) are handled, and the rangers actually reside during the season. </div><div><br></div><div>There are also those “ranger cabins” that you find off-trail where rangers live when they are in charge of patrolling the trails in a wilderness area. </div><div><br></div><div>toll_booth should cover the little buildings that take money from arriving and departing guests, information= tags can cover the kiosks and signs, and reception_desk was specifically made for situations where campers need to check in to register fro their spots. </div><div><br></div><div>The Ranger station/visitor center might be a big building that does all of these jobs, but there should be some points created int he building area that micro-map all of these functions. </div><div><br></div><div>Some park campgrounds have *a lot* of buildings (thinking of Paso Picacho and Green Valley Falls in San Diego).</div><div><br></div><div>This would also work for car camping sites, boy scout camps, and other non-park service camping places (car camps in Japan and in the US are quite similar), so the name should be somewhat generic and agnostic. </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Javbw</div></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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