[OSM-newbies] sharing ways between areas

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:51 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Both of you have tagged national parks with either
>> Tag:leisure=nature_reserve or Tag:leisure=natural_reserve, if you tag
>> these parks as Tag:boundary=national_park they will show up on
>> osmarender on all zoom levels, see e.g. Þingvallaþjóðgarður in
>> Iceland:
>
> Aha, there's another reason I didn't know about the boundary tag...
>
> In the wiki, boundary only has the attribute : administrative, whereas
> in Potlatch I have the options of using administrative, civil,
> national_park, and political.
>
> So what do I do with a Provincial Grazing, Wildlife, and Recreation
> Reserve? It's not a National Park, but one level down in the
> government scope. Should I still tag it as a national_park?

Maybe start a discussion on the wiki or the osm-talk mailing list
about the best way to tag these features. in the meantime you might
want to use boundary=national_park and add admin_level to it similarly
to how boundary=administrative is handled.