[Talk-us-massachusetts] intro and intent

[Bill Ricker]

Ok, can you point me to one of your parks that is NOT green on default
render?
(The parks that I care about most are park colored whenever i look)

Since the primary OSM map is failing to show (your, some)  Parks in Parks
Green with the latest Tagging ^consensus^ (*however screwdup that may be*),
there are options besides retagging in a Wiki-style-edit-war or tagging
debates --

   - filing bug or PR for default OSM map's render rules to add the current,
   offending ^preferred^ park tags to what gets painted park green as parks
   should, because yes it is a bug that a Wiki/List preferred park tagging
   isn't looking like a park
   (if this requires a change in priority between Status and LandCover
   during rendering, i guess that's also a bug/PR issue?)
   - check if one of the alternate renders in the standard OSM.org does
   better, and until above is fixed, recommend THAT view to your
   friends/acquaintances/hiking-buddies
   (the two Cycle maps are better for trails and hills anyway, as they have
   hills!
   I'd like a shaded/contours version that doesn't make designated cycle
   routes quite so fluorescent, tho.;
   OTOH warning that BMX are allowed on one trail but not another may be
   useful to hikers )
   - and ditto other sites that use OSM data but their own renders,
   possibly with additional input (DEM etc)
   e.g,
   - TopOSM <http://toposm.ahlzen.com/> (wiki
   <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TopOSM>) (by a local OSM/ham) doesn't
   get as deep a zoom level as i'd like so less useful for trails, but
   - OpenTopoMap <https://opentopomap.org/#map=17/42.44105/-71.08095> does
   get a little deeper (and may get deeper slowly anywhere we zoom ?).
   - if you find a slippy map for which you like the park renders, you can
   embed *that* slippy map (or a radio-box of just those) in a hobbit.org
   (or whatever) webpage (and if maybe even overlay static or dynamic
   point/line layers over it !)
   e.g. my Radio Field Day Directory
   <https://ema.arrl.org/field_day/history/SiteMap.php?option=Act+Maybe>
   (
      - - which uses PHP only because the EMA Section uses a PHP-based CMS,
      and i'm tucked on the backside of the same PHP & MySQL;
      - - any other stack would work fine, just need to embed a little JS
      in the page template;
      - - used to even be able to have static HTML page with either cached
      or linked JS libraries and IIRC a link to a local static overlay (text)
      data file, but i don't have a working example currently;
      -    XSS security rules may require hosting the full slippy map JS
      stack locally to have local datafile, callback to ./datafile.txt
may now be
      forbidden unless one can code permissions headers in the HTTPD
config ?? I
      don't have time to reconstruct that *now. But i think it's still
      doable?*
      )
   - ( worst case of course you can put up your own caching tile server
   with your own render rules  !
   which i guess you could restrict to zooming in just the geographic area
   you care about unless you got funding from other areas to zoom nation/world
   wide.)
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