[Talk-us] National Forest "nature_reserve"?

[Elliott Plack]

I've also imported a fair bit of state forests, parks, wildlife areas and
the like. From what I've read and interpreted, the boundary=protected_area
schema with all of its related tags are the *new* way of doing it, and
leisure=nature_reserve is the *old* way. Protected forests are literally
reserved nature, but the leisure part is a bit misguided.

I think that the folks that planned the boundary=protected_area tags would
probably like to see the leisure=nature_reserve and the one for parks
deprecated, but for now, we're seeing both tagging schemas used.

Examples:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3681581
http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3681587

Best,

Elliott

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:11 PM stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> I tag landuse=forest on National Forests.  If there are any included
> wilderness areas, I tag them leisure=nature_reserve.  Sometimes these
> boundaries can be quite complex via multipolygons, but I try to keep
> it as simple as this, and I seldom get people arguing with these
> tagging conventions.
>
> SteveA
> California
> (after tagging a good many National Forests and their included
> Wildernesses in California)
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