[Talk-us] Finding Changesets to Correct or Revert (Clifford Snow)

[stevea]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:56 AM Doug Peterson <dougpeterson at dpeters2.dyndns.org> wrote:
> It's my fault for not zooming in more. I did not see it at all when I downloaded that area in JOSM. I sent a note to tyndale about that. I understand that there is a direction towards using boundary to replace state and county use of leisure=park. I have seen plenty of expections to those description, meaning state and county parks that are urban manicured parks. However, it is not an argument I'm going to pick. I would just like to be sure the parks don't disappear in the process, like this one.

It has distinctly emerged over the last year or two that leisure=park on such "larger" parks (county parks and especially state parks) is incorrect tagging.  Some have substituted leisure=nature_reserve, but these semantics may or may not logically map very well in the eye of the contributor.  However, this renders, so go figure.

Our "slowly emerging" wiki https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/United_States/Public_lands suggests the following:

It is important to note that boundary=national_park is also tagged on state parks, states being as sovereign as the federal government for purposes of declaring a park a park. So, for a "State Park,"

Tag boundaries:

	• boundary=national_park or boundary=protected_area with protect_class=2
	• protection_title=State Park
	• name=Name of the State Park
	• ownership=state
	• operator=Name of the state Department of Parks & Recreation (as appropriate)
	• protected=perpetuity

It may be that this tagging does not render to your liking, or as Doug may have noticed "the park disappears."  I suggest bringing that up with the author(s) of your chosen renderer.

This is a difficult and contentious (less so, but still) topic in OSM in the USA, so tag your best, map your best.  OSM can keep kicking this can down the road, but eventually will need to harmonize parks / public lands tagging with better rendering.

SteveA