[Talk-us] National/State Park tagging
Greg Troxel
gdt at ir.bbn.com
Tue May 12 12:54:53 BST 2009
Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com> writes:
> many parks are tagged with
> leisure park
> Is this really the recommended setting? according to the wiki park is
> something more like golden gate park in SF or central park in NY
> natural_reserve matches better the main purpose of national parks.
> some places in national parks are as crowded as a city park but that's
> another story....
I think leisure=nature_reserve is probably better, but I have not gotten
my head around the whole
landuse
natural
leisure
combination. It seems there are two orthogonal issues, and this blurs
them. One is what is on the ground. This is what the USGS put on topos
- green or white, depending on whether it was wooded or open. The other
is purpose/access/etc. I think these two things are almost completely
orthogonal.
Within purpose/use, I see some landuse type things
business, commercial, residential
farming
forestry land, where the prime use really is harvesting trees
open public land where people can go, without deeded conservation
restrictions
conservation land where people can go
conservation land where people can go but there is occasional treecutting
conservation land where people can't go ("refuge", more or less)
hunting area ("wildlife management area" in mass)
Currently it seems natural=, landuse= and sort of leisure= attempt to be
jointly exhaustive and sort of mutually exclusive but not really.
Is it just me, or is this muddled?
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