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

[Jason Remillard]

Hi,

For what its worth, protected= tag was introduced during the MassGIS
open space import, and is not used much outside of MA.

For your general municipal purpose, you could also add access=yes.

Also, if you doing a trail map, you can add access tags (yes, private,
permissive, etc) to show that a trail is OK to be on, rather than
tagging the properties.

Jason

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Joseph Holmes
<Joseph.Holmes at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> --
> Joe Holmes
> Joseph.Holmes at alum.mit.edu
> 978-635-1982
>
>
>
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