[talk-au] Basic question

[Andrew Harvey]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:53, cleary <osm at 97k.com> wrote:

>
> Good mapping practice is to keep administrative boundaries such as state
> parks, conservation areas, suburbs etc separate from natural features such
> as water, waterways, woods etc.  While they sometimes approximate, they
> rarely coincide exactly.
>
> Tagging a state park as natural=wood is usually inappropriate because
> there will, nearly always, be parts of the park that are unwooded.  Best to
> map the park with its official boundary and then map the natural features
> separately using other unofficial sources such as survey and satellite
> imagery.
>

Agreed, though as a rough first pass it has been common to tag natural=wood
on the administrative boundary if it's 90% correct, but eventually as the
mapping becomes more detailed separate natural=wood is the way to go.
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