[Talk-ca] Provincial Parks Sample

[Kevin Smith]

On 04/04/2010 8:38 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> As we were chatting earlier..
> (cc:talk-ca list)
>
> I just want to show you a sample.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-123.8369687&minlat=48.7525877&maxlon=-123.7812077&maxlat=48.7667345&box=yes
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-123.8369687&minlat=48.7525877&maxlon=-123.7812077&maxlat=48.7667345&box=yes>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4329006
>
> It appears that the National Protected area's file DOES contain
> provincial park boundaries.
>
> I've converted & created 11 .osm files.   and i think it's best to
> just copy in 1 at a time, as there is no rush.
>
> This one is interesting because the Cowichan Vally Regional District
> ALSO has the parks file (but i think it's just for regional parks)
It has regional, municipal, and provincial parks, though it only has a
few of the parks in the other municipalities and it only gives them
names,  It doesn't have a field to indicate which parks are at which
level.  And it doesn't include the portion of PRNP that overlaps the
CVRD.  And actually I was doing the integration for it while you
uploaded that test. I'd already started uploading it when checked the
map and saw the addition.

> Anyway... i was thinking creating a new tag
> "boundary=provincial_park"  kind of like how we have the proposal for
> boundary=aborigional_lands.

It bothers me a little as it's something of a Canadian specific term. 
I'd kind of prefer to see national_park replaced with a more generic
term, and then use operator or admin_level.  As it is I made the
provincial parks in the CVRD data national_park with "operator=BC
Parks".  The rest are either leisure=park or leisure=nature_reserve (for
"Nature Parks") with the the municipality they are in as the operator.

-- 
Kevin Smith <haietlik at draconic.ca>


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