<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 04/01/2010, at 9:57 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>. Ok, there are a few issues. First, "natural=" just describes what's on the land, like trees or not, so isn't useful. The right tag would be something like "landuse=reserve", although this appears to be still under debate: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Nature_reserve">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Nature_reserve</a><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've been using boundary=national_park[0] for these, even if they're not strictly National Parks (e.g. state reserves, forest reserves, etc).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I would be less interested in tagging who manages it, and more interested in tagging the legislation that appears to it. Afaik, "national park" has a specific legal meaning, even if all Victiorion NPs are managed by Parks Victoria etc.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My understanding is that National Parks fall under commonwealth legislation and the others under various pieces of state legislation. Coming up with a consistent tagging is going to be all sorts of fun due to the differences between places. Tasmania for example has 7 different types of reserve[1] plus all the other parks and marine areas, and Victoria has 14 in total[2].</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe something like park=au.tas:game_reserve?</div><br><br><blockquote type="cite">So far I've been tagging them fairly indiscriminately as leisure=park, but giving them the full title in their name, on the basis that it will be fairly easy to mass update them once we work out an appropriate tagging scheme.<br></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dnational_park">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dnational_park</a></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=5710">http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=5710</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1parks.cfm">http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1parks.cfm</a></div></body></html>