<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">While the parks in the District of Columbia are administered by the National Park Service, the Service also manages National Monuments and other features which are not considered National Parks.<div><br></div><div>None of the parks in DC are on the list of 63 "National Parks" in wikipedia:</div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Nation Park Service mentioned that they administer 432 sites, including all sorts of different kinds of protection and names: National Battlefield Parks, National Historical Parks, National Memorials, National Recreation Areas, as well as the big National Monuments and National Parks:</div><div><a href="https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/how-many-national-parks-are-there">https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/how-many-national-parks-are-there</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>The DC urban parks are in the "Other" category:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><i>"Other Designations (11):<br>Though it may seem like the designations listed above cover every site, there are special sites within the National Park System that are designated otherwise. Places like Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, the parks along our National Mall and Memorial Parks, and even the White House fall into this “other designations” category."</i></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>- Joseph Eisenberg</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:41 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us <<a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Nearly real example:<br></div><div>In Poland developers call nearly all new housing under names<br></div><div>"Something Park"<br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I never heard about "National Park", but lets say that it exists.<br></div><div>Is it taggable as boundary=national_park?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Fictional example:<br></div><div><br></div><div>in Farawaystan military calls important military bases "National parks"<br></div><div>Is it taggable as boundary=national_park?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would say no, and would use boundary=national_park for protected natural wild areas.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Similarly restaurant calling itself "Supermassive dam" would not be tagged waterway=dam<br></div><div>(fictional example).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Restaurant called "Mysterious Garden" ( <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920</a> )<br></div><div>is not taggable as leisure=garden based on it name.<br></div><div><br></div><div>National Park Service case is trickier as they administer also things fitting<br></div><div>boundary=national_park tagging.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Apr 29, 2021, 04:33 by <a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div>Interestingly, the National Park Service says[1]: "The President of the United States lives in a National Park" (referring to President's Park). This was a trivia item I remember from my grade school days. So the question is how much weight we put on the NPS calling something a National Park, as compared to the IUCN definitions of National Park (which OSM's protected area scheme is largely based on).<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.nps.gov/whho/index.htm" target="_blank">https://www.nps.gov/whho/index.htm</a><br></div><div>[2] <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/about/protected-areas-categories/category-ii-national-park" target="_blank">https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/about/protected-areas-categories/category-ii-national-park</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:31 PM Zeke Farwell <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:ezekielf@gmail.com" target="_blank">ezekielf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I think I agree with you, Joseph. I could be convinced that the larger parks qualify, but not the smaller ones. For reference, Here's a map of all the land the National Park Service owns in Washington, DC. I had no idea they owned all these little parks.<br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://arcg.is/04eHzT" target="_blank">https://arcg.is/04eHzT</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </div>
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