[Talk-us] Tag convention for bulk imports?

[Tyler]

>
> You might want to use the admin_level tag for specifying the municipal
> level.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level


That seems to be a favored suggestion re: parks. But there's no current
tagging scheme which is appropriate. What admin level would a national park
be? The same as a national boundary? So then you'd have this big purple
border around a national park (in mapnik)? Well that clearly doesn't make
sense, from a visual perspective then it would appear that the park was
actually a hole within the national boundary. Maybe it's a separate nation
contained within the nation at that point, nah that's stupid, clearly there
are no countries where that is the case [1] [2] [3], it must be a national
inholding.

So then if we're going to use admin levels there should be a boundary type
since administrative clearly doesn't work. But then we're back to the
previous discussion about creating a new tagging scheme for parks and
reserves. At that point you can do ownership, operator and admin_level with
no problem. But so far, that doesn't exist.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City

-Tyler
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