[Talk-us] boundary = national_park in the US

tshrub my-email-confirmation at online.de
Sat Jan 8 21:08:52 GMT 2011


Hi Daniel,
> ...
>
> I've seen admin_level used to differentiate between state and
> national parks, but that doesn't distinguish between
> park/forest/monument/preserve.
>
> There is also the proposed boundary=protected_area, but while that
> provides a nice international baseline it still won't describe what
> kind of park it is in a US context.
on a global view (what OSM is for) it's confusing to catch every kind by 
name.
therefor is an "additional key"(-system), that might cover it?
may be elaborate one/them?
protection_object=



> Also, since they're both boundary
> tags they'll need to be on separate relations which I won't be able
> to render nicely without a preprocessor.
? I don´t know.
its difficult to distinguish between the boundary-types?



>
>...
best regards, t.




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