[Talk-us-nps] White House (DC) Grounds

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Sun Jun 23 15:33:45 UTC 2013


On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com>wrote:

> Check out the name of this park in DC: "name = President's Park, White
> House Ground, Exec. Office, Treasury Bldg"
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/41964984
>
> I was chatting with AJ at MapBox about this label, and how it'd be hard to
> split up this into the relavant pieces.
>
> Looks like DC GIS import, but perhaps the National Park Service of the
> better name for this or has it split up into separate parts.
>
> Here it is on the map
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.89611&lon=-77.03548&zoom=17&layers=M
>

According to the National Park Service website, nps.gov, it looks like the
name should just be President's Park. I can not tell from a quick look at
the map how it compares to OSM. Here is the listing on nps.gov for the park:
 President's Park (White House) <http://www.nps.gov/whho/index.htm>
The President of the United States and their family live in a national
park! The White House and President's Park, have been a part of the
national park system since 1933. President's Park is the park land
surrounding the White House and its grounds and includes the Ellipse,
Lafayette Park, Sherman Park and the 1st Division Monument.
As you can see it does encompass 3 parks and the 1st Division Monument.

Have you thought about going to irma.nps.gov to see if you can get better
information about the park and how it should be named?

-- 
Clifford

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