[talk-au] Distinguish between National, State etc parks

[James Livingston]

On 04/01/2010, at 9:57 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> . Ok, there are a few issues. First, "natural=" just describes what's on the land, like trees or not, so isn't useful. The right tag would be something like "landuse=reserve", although this appears to be still under debate: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Nature_reserve

I've been using boundary=national_park[0] for these, even if they're not strictly National Parks (e.g. state reserves, forest reserves, etc).


> I would be less interested in tagging who manages it, and more interested in tagging the legislation that appears to it. Afaik, "national park" has a specific legal meaning, even if all Victiorion NPs are managed by Parks Victoria etc.

My understanding is that National Parks fall under commonwealth legislation and the others under various pieces of state legislation. Coming up with a consistent tagging is going to be all sorts of fun due to the differences between places. Tasmania for example has 7 different types of reserve[1] plus all the other parks and marine areas, and Victoria has 14 in total[2].

Maybe something like park=au.tas:game_reserve?


> So far I've been tagging them fairly indiscriminately as leisure=park, but giving them the full title in their name, on the basis that it will be fairly easy to mass update them once we work out an appropriate tagging scheme.


[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dnational_park
[1] http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=5710
[2] http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1parks.cfm
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