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

[James Livingston]

On 28/06/2010, at 11:10 PM, Markus wrote:
> Sound good to me to leave the GLR number and Ecolink if you put it with a
> standard osm key.

Here's what I've currently got, any more comments?

1) National park get boundary=national_park and leisure=nature_reserve. Should any of the standard, Recovery, Scientific, or Aboriginal NPs or Resource Reserves get marked differently (e.g. nationak_park=scientific)? Reading the QLD Nature Conservation Act '92, I don't think they make a general difference for what we use, but some of them may be more restricted due to regeneration for recovery.

2) Conservation Parks get boundary=protected_area and leisure=nature_reserve.

3) State Forests get landuse=forest. Any leisure activities (e.g camping) get marked as their own thing, like tourism=camp_site, which isn't in this dataset

4) Forest Reserves and Timber Reserve (which are often adjacent to or in State Forests) get landuse=forest as well, I can't see any useful additional tags.

4) If there is a CREEK or ROAD polygon through an park, I'll add a waterway=river/highway=road way and merge that polygon into the surrounding park. I don't think we need the actual road-reserve polygons do we?

5) Everything that has a IUCN code gets that put as protect_id=1-6.

6) Do we want the EcoLink/GLR number data? I think it's just a identifier that the govt department uses, so it's only real use would be to help if we want to do process updates - however it may be easier just to diff the old and new data and do it manually, this stuff shouldn't change to fast.

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James