[Talk-us] Tag convention for bulk imports?

[Adam Schreiber]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Tyler<tyler.ritchie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   If it is necessary to further classify parks in the US, one logical tag
>> scheme might be
>>
>>  park=city
>>  park=county
>>  park=state
>>  park=national
>
> I think better would be leisure=outdoor_recreation (or something similar)
> because we can already do ownership=city operator="Boise Department of Parks
> and Recreation" I also think that shying away from US-centric
> classifications is a good idea. Canada, much of South and Central America,
> Australia and any other newish country have similar issues.

You might want to use the admin_level tag for specifying the municipal level.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level

Cheers,

Adam