[Tagging] recent change to ranger_station proposal
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 03:12:50 UTC 2015
On 5/03/2015 12:32 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> In the end I think the better tag would have been
> amenity=visitor_contact_facility.
tourism=visitor_centre ?
But there are already two existing tags that could be used;
tourism=information "/May include Tourist information centres and
offices./ " http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dinformation
information=office "/An office where you can get information about a
town or region./" http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:information
>
> Ranger station is commonly mapped in the USA, but has a murky
> meaning. In the US national and state parks,
> the visitor center and ranger station have overlap, with the more
> visitor oriented ranger jobs happening in the
> visitor center, and the more police oriented activities in a separate
> (sometimes unmarked) building.
In Australia the visitor centre can be physically separate from the
'ranger station'. Where physically separated they have separate
functions too.
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