<div dir="ltr">@Kevin,<div><br></div><div>Your reply is, as always, well thought out and well stated. I haven't had the opportunity to tag any of these so far but I've stashed a copy of this thread in my Evernotes folder.<br><br>Keep up the good work!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Kevin Kenny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.b.kenny+osm@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.b.kenny+osm@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"><div><div><div>Since nobody else has stepped forward to answer this, as far as I can tell, let me take a whack at it:<br><br></div>I think that the best tagging for a hunting reserve that the current renderer knows about is 'leisure=nature_reserve". That's how the state wildlife management areas in New York, the State Game Lands in Pennsylvania, and so on are tagged. 'Nature reserves' encompass a lot of things.<br><br></div><div>If the chief object of the reserve is something other than hunting, then another landuse may be appropriate. On many of the state reserves in my area, the chief object is timber production and hunting is a secondary use. In that case, 'landuse=forest' would be a better choice. <br></div><div><br></div>In addition, moving forward, there should be appropriate protected area tagging. If memory serves, what I used for New York's wildlife management areas was 'boundary=protected_area protect_class=4 protection_title="Wildlife Management Area" '. In a few cases, such as a state game farm dedicated to the ring-necked pheasant, I used combinations like 'protect_class=14 protection_object=species species:name="Phaisianus colchicus" '. Similarly, for the New York City recreation areas that allow hunting, I used the primary purpose of the land: 'protect_class=12 protection_object=water', and added 'access=yes hunting=yes' (among other tags).<br><br></div><div>These schemes appear to have held up even in a very complex land management regime. Querying some of the features visible on <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=41.9339&lon=-74.1889#map=13/41.9842/-74.2488" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>query?lat=41.9339&lon=-74.<wbr>1889#map=13/41.9842/-74.2488</a> would give a good idea of the range of things that can be represented, including private preserves, developed 'front country' campgrounds, public hunting reserves, and on up to out-and-out class-1 wilderness. (I can say from personal experience that the mountains west of the Ashokan Reservoir are quite wild indeed, from having climbed the 1000-m peaks there. Unless one is a very, very fast hiker and prepared to start and finish in darkness, those nine peaks require a multi-day off-trail expedition to complete.)<br><br></div><div>A good example of a private preserve is found at <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=41.4263&lon=-74.0612#map=13/42.5379/-74.1473" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>query?lat=41.4263&lon=-74.<wbr>0612#map=13/42.5379/-74.1473</a> There, the Partridge Run properties are state-owned (under two different land management schemes, which is unavoidably confusing!), while the Huyck Preserve belongs to a private non-profit conservancy. <br></div><div><br></div>There's no reason that a private game reserve can't be tagged as a 'protected area' - not all protections arise from government fiat. Add 'access=private' if you have to pay to get in, and 'site_ownership=private' if that's relevant. <br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NYS_DEC_Lands" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/NYS_DEC_Lands</a> and <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import:_NYCDEP_Watershed_Recreation_Areas" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Import:_NYCDEP_Watershed_<wbr>Recreation_Areas</a> were the two import proposals that I sponsored that used the protected_area tagging scheme. Both were reasonably non-controversial. (There is no such thing as an entirely non-controversial import proposal - but the objections raised to the import had nothing to do with the choice of tagging.)<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Alejandro S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alejandroscf@gmail.com" target="_blank">alejandroscf@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"><div>Hi everybody!<br><br></div>Is there a tag for hunting areas? I mean, big areas, sometimes fenced and usually you have to pay to hunt there.<br><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div class="m_-8009026182217519680m_-2794493633668082519gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kind regards,<br></div><div> Alejandro Suárez</div></div></div></div>
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