<div dir="ltr">I will note that the Massachusetts, USA mapping community does believe that there is a distinction between the two tags, as noted here:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Massachusetts/Conservation">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Massachusetts/Conservation</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>However, this usage and definition seems to be specific to that particular community and is not a widely shared viewpoint. I was under the impression that landuse=conservation was deprecated, but if that was resulting from an arbitrary wiki edit and not a formal proposal, perhaps it should not be marked deprecated in the wiki.</div><div><br></div><div>As to the question of whether landuse=conservation and boundary=protected_area mean exactly the same thing, I don't think we can answer that easily, because boundary=protected_area lacks a formal definition. My prior, current, and hopefully future proposal(s) are in part working towards developing that definition of boundary=protected_area, and aligning its meaning to the way wikipedia defines[1] protected area.</div><div><br></div><div>My personal *opinion* is that boundary=protected_area should deprecate landuse=conservation, but there are certainly multiple viewpoints out there.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_area">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_area</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:26 PM Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Recently another wiki user marked landuse=conservation as "deprecated" on the Map Features page: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:landuse&curid=11273&diff=2071912&oldid=2068278" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:landuse&curid=11273&diff=2071912&oldid=2068278</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>This same user had marked the page itself as deprecated back in 2017: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Alanduse%3Dconservation&type=revision&diff=1498145&oldid=387459" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Alanduse%3Dconservation&type=revision&diff=1498145&oldid=387459</a></div><div><br></div><div>Previously the Tag:landuse=conservation page had been redirected to a proposal since 2009: </div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/conservation" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/conservation</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><i>"<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Conservation land is land protected from development.</span></i></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i>It is left in more or less a natural state.</i></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i>It is often maintained to a very limited extent, such as annual mowing to prevent forest growth, removal of invasive species, replanting, or dealing with or preventing erosion.</i></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i>The public typically, but not always, has access, as it is a valuable recreational resource. (Sometimes the public has no physical way of getting to it, or is not allowed for water protection reasons, safety, etc)."</i></p><div>Now boundary=protected_area is probably the more common way to tag this concept.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Comparison:</div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/boundary=protected_area/landuse=conservation" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/boundary=protected_area/landuse=conservation</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>landuse=conservation is declining since 2015: <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=conservation#chronology" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=conservation#chronology</a></div><div><br></div><div>While boundary=protected area mostly increases, though there are some jumps up and down from imports I imagine: <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/boundary=protected_area#chronology" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/boundary=protected_area#chronology</a></div><div><br></div><div>Is it correct to say that landuse=conservation has been deprecated<font face="arial, sans-serif">, practically, by <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area" target="_blank">boundary=protected_area</a>, even though that tag has not been approved?</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span>-- Joseph Eisenberg</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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