[Talk-us-massachusetts] How do I Mark Publicly Owned Land?

[Joseph Holmes]

Hi OSM Gurus,

I have a question about the correct way to mark land owned by the Town
of Acton. We have several categories of land, which are currently marked
as follows:

Conservation Land:   boundary=protected_area / leisure=nature_reserve /
protect_class=5 / protection_title=local_conservation_land /
protected=perpetuity

Publicly Owned Farm Land:   boundary=protected_area / landuse=farmland

Park:   leisure=park

Water District:   landuse=reservoir_watershed

Cemetery Commission:   landuse=cemetery

School Department:   amenity=school


However we have other land owned by the town for "general municipal"
purposes. We use the OSM data as input to draw our conservation trail
maps. And the trails are often partly on these lands which are not
formally conservation land. So we need to mark these. I propose just
using the following:

area=yes / owner=Town of Acton / ownership=municipal

Please send feedback. Also feedback on the above list. Note that in the
above list we also include owner and ownership. Also there are some
other owners of many of the above in Acton.

Thanks,

Joe Holmes

Acton Land Stewardship Committee



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Joe Holmes
Joseph.Holmes at alum.mit.edu
978-635-1982