[Talk-us-massachusetts] Fwd: landuse=conservation

[Jim Snyder-Grant]

The two of us working on Acton conservation land mapping a lot these days
are willing to make the change to boundary=protected_area in Acton.
We are thinking  protect_class=5 seems to fit best for our conservation
lands, but this is open for consideration.

Jim Snyder-Grant
18 Half Moon Hill
Acton MA 01720
508 572-2985 <(508)%20572-2985>


On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Jason Remillard <remillard.jason at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> The landuse=conservation value is deprecated. The tag is no longer
> rendered in the base style sheet and the JOSM validator reports a warning
> asking to use boundary=protected_area when uploading data.  The MassGIS
> open space imported over 15,000+ areas with this tag/value. 17,000 exist in
> the worldwide, so most of them are in Massachusetts from the import.
>
> As a side note, the conservation properties are still rendered because
> leisure=nature_reserve is also used and it is rendered.
>
> Eventually we should probably remove landuse=conservation from Mass.
> Before we can remove anything we need to add the boundary=protected_area
> tag set in.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area
>
> In Mass we have conservation land owned by local cities, town, the state,
> and at least a hundred of nonprofits. The wiki page for the tag set seems
> to be very "national part" centric, and I would like to see what people
> think about using this tag set in MA.
>
> Do we just add in boundary=protected_area and ignore the rest of the tags?
> It seems like
> protect_class=1 would fit most of the properties in my area...
>
>
> Thanks
> Jason
>
>
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