[Tagging] Hunting area tagging

[Dave Swarthout]

@Kevin,

Your reply is, as always, well thought out and well stated. I haven't had
the opportunity to tag any of these so far but I've stashed a copy of this
thread in my Evernotes folder.

Keep up the good work!

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+osm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Since nobody else has stepped forward to answer this, as far as I can
> tell, let me take a whack at it:
>
> I think that the best tagging for a hunting reserve that the current
> renderer knows about is 'leisure=nature_reserve". That's how the state
> wildlife management areas in New York, the State Game Lands in
> Pennsylvania, and so on are tagged. 'Nature reserves' encompass a lot of
> things.
>
> If the chief object of the reserve is something other than hunting, then
> another landuse may be appropriate. On many of the state reserves in my
> area, the chief object is timber production and hunting is a secondary use.
> In that case, 'landuse=forest' would be a better choice.
>
> In addition, moving forward, there should be appropriate protected area
> tagging. If memory serves, what I used for New York's wildlife management
> areas was 'boundary=protected_area protect_class=4
> protection_title="Wildlife Management Area" '. In a few cases, such as a
> state game farm dedicated to the ring-necked pheasant, I used combinations
> like 'protect_class=14 protection_object=species species:name="Phaisianus
> colchicus" '. Similarly, for the New York City recreation areas that allow
> hunting, I used the primary purpose of the land: 'protect_class=12
> protection_object=water', and added 'access=yes hunting=yes' (among other
> tags).
>
> These schemes appear to have held up even in a very complex land
> management regime. Querying some of the features visible on
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=41.9339&lon=-74.
> 1889#map=13/41.9842/-74.2488 would give a good idea of the range of
> things that can be represented, including private preserves, developed
> 'front country' campgrounds, public hunting reserves, and on up to
> out-and-out class-1 wilderness. (I can say from personal experience that
> the mountains west of the Ashokan Reservoir are quite wild indeed, from
> having climbed the 1000-m peaks there. Unless one is a very, very fast
> hiker and prepared to start and finish in darkness, those nine peaks
> require a multi-day off-trail expedition to complete.)
>
> A good example of a private preserve is found at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=41.4263&lon=-74.
> 0612#map=13/42.5379/-74.1473 There, the Partridge Run properties are
> state-owned (under two different land management schemes, which is
> unavoidably confusing!), while the Huyck Preserve belongs to a private
> non-profit conservancy.
>
> There's no reason that a private game reserve can't be tagged as a
> 'protected area' - not all protections arise from government fiat. Add
> 'access=private' if you have to pay to get in, and 'site_ownership=private'
> if that's relevant.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NYS_DEC_Lands and
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import:_NYCDEP_Watershed_
> Recreation_Areas were the two import proposals that I sponsored that used
> the protected_area tagging scheme. Both were reasonably non-controversial.
> (There is no such thing as an entirely non-controversial import proposal -
> but the objections raised to the import had nothing to do with the choice
> of tagging.)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Alejandro S. <alejandroscf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody!
>>
>> Is there a tag for hunting areas? I mean, big areas, sometimes fenced and
>> usually you have to pay to hunt there.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>   Alejandro Suárez
>>
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Dave Swarthout
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