[talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas

[James Livingston]

Hi all,

I've been looking at http://data.australia.gov.au/127, which contains all
the national parks, state forest, conservation areas and so on in
Queensland. If no-one else had been doing anything with this, I'd been
thinking about adding it to OSM.

Current practice seems to be tagging them all as boundary=national_park,
regardless of whether they're National Parks or other things like State
Forests. Would adding national_park=state_forest and similar to the tags be
a good idea?

There's also a bunch of things like "resource reserves" and "timber
reserves" inside the parks, any good suggestions about how to tag those?


This would obviously be a manual piece-by-piece upload, since it would need
merging with existing data there's interesting things like river/road names
we can pull out (because it has the road reserves marked). A converted file
with most of the attributes cleaned up is at
http://www.sunsetutopia.com/qld_parks.osm.bz2 if anyone wants to look, but
it still needs a lot of merging of polygons and the like

-- 
James
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