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<div style="16px" text-align="left">29 Apr 2019, 05:12 by steveaOSM@softworkers.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">How much consensus IS there for tagging national_park on "large, (important?) state parks" which roughly (or not) meet the national_park definition in our wiki?<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">It seems that national_park is likely to be affected by problem similar to leisure=park.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Many countries have things called "national park" that are some form of nature protection<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">but details are very different.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Given that there is viable alternative that may be less ambiguous it may be preferable to<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">avoid national_park or at least be aware that meaning is likely to be strongly affected by regional<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">differences.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For example:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">in Poland "national park" is basically "large/very large nature reserve that has stronger legal <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">protections and is more famous". Some of them are tiny (probably comically tiny by USA standards)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">like Ojcowski Park Narodowy ("Park Narodowy" directly translates into "Naional Park")<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">at <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6247785#map=12/50.2054/19.8272">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6247785#map=12/50.2054/19.8272</a> - covering 21 square km.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I am tempted to treat boundary=protected_area as preferable, despite that tags specifying exact type<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">are unreadable codes.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(I am loudly thinking here, and not sue what exactly should be done here)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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