[Talk-us] US BLM Designated Wilderness

[Apollinaris Schoell]

I have added most for state parks but didn't have a source for national parks and special areas in there. So yes a good plan to add them.
also it's good to remove the nature_reserve tag from the park itself and keep it only for designated areas. initially parks have been added only to show up as big green areas. Now with more and more details it's my favorite to define the park itself as a boundary and add details like nature_reserve and vegetation.
One recommendation. don't add the name to the area and a node with the same name like this node
  <node id='795304353' timestamp='2010-06-29T04:07:52Z' uid='191585' user='Erik Burrows' visible='true' version='1' changeset='5103001' lat='35.381583' lon='-115.64253'>
Rendering will create name duplicates whenever there is enough space. 
If you need a reference to crosscheck the quality of the data check out http://www.greeninfo.org/
they have not yet agreed to open their license for osm but might do so in future. 
it's the best reference for all areas open for the public in CA



On 29 Jun 2010, at 18:14 , Erik Burrows wrote:

> I just added a group of designated wilderness areas to the database, in
> the US Mojave National Preserve area, as leisure=nature_reserve. This
> differs from national parks in that in designated wilderness areas,
> mechanized travel and development of the land is usually prohibited.
> 
> The current Mapnik style doesn't render this clearly differently from
> national park areas, but could be modified, as I have done to my own
> slippy map instance here:
> 
> http://www.erikburrows.com/osm/?zoom=10&lat=35.09019&lon=-115.57072
> 
> I think this first batch of areas went well, though did require removing
> a park multipolygon relation containing the same leisure=nature_reserve
> tag. Another boundry relation does the job of designating the area as
> boundry=national_park.
> 
> The data is from the BLM (Bureau of Land Management), and so not
> copyrighted:
> 
> http://www.blm.gov/ca/gis/ (This link is California only)
> 
> I'd like to volunteer to import the rest of these designated wilderness
> areas into the OSM database as a bulk import. 
> 
> Any objections, suggestions, comments?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Erik Burrows
> 
> 
> 
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