<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px">>>tourism=information "</span><i style="font-size:16px">May include Tourist information centres and offices.</i><span style="font-size:16px"> " </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dinformation" target="_blank" style="font-size:16px">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dinformation</a><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">>>information=office "</span><i style="font-size:16px">An office where you can get information about a town or region.</i><span style="font-size:16px">" </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:information" target="_blank" style="font-size:16px">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:information</a><span style="font-size:16px"> </span><br style="font-size:16px"><div><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">Yes, I suppose those two tags work for visitor center. That's what I've been using up to now. That said, IMO the ranger_station is a different type of amenity from the information office described in the above tags. Just a couple of simple additions to the wiki page would clarify those differences.</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:38 PM, johnw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>we should be able to map the icon to a generic tag, such as amenity=camp_office or something, or map the more private “ranger_station” facilities in another matter, and leave amenity=ranger_station to these more public facing facilities that people are looking for. </div><div><br></div><div>The name “ranger station” can always be denoted in the name field, and the tag something more generic for further mapping around the world. </div><div><br></div><div>Really interesting about the park service involvement.</div><div><br></div><div>Javbw</div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Mar 5, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <<a href="mailto:bryce2@obviously.com" target="_blank">bryce2@obviously.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><br><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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A vast number of park maps have a thing called a ranger station, with a standard symbol (a cabin with a flag over it).</div><div><br></div><div>That specific symbol svg graphic, the tag, and the name all came from the US National Park Service in fact, when</div><div>the park service donated data to Open Street Map.</div><div><br></div><div>There may be a reader expectation that what's called on the ground a "ranger station" is in fact mapped as a ranger station. </div></div><br></div></div></div></div><span class="">
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