[Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

[OSM Volunteer stevea]

How much consensus IS there for tagging national_park on "large, (important?) state parks" which roughly (or not) meet the national_park definition in our wiki?

We have two in New York, quite a few in California, some in other states.  Do we wish to keep these as they are?  Do we rough out "rules" of when it is appropriate to use this tag?  I might be wrong about this, but it does seem that geographic size (sheer area) does play an important role in whether we might say "yes" or "no."  "How big" is that threshold?  (If any).

I know:  this gets chewy quickly.  Park tagging is difficult when we put things into categories.  We now use four tags to contain a vast universe of parks and park-like things, MANY of which are quite different from one another.  Can we improve upon this or am I simply barking at a tree?

SteveA