[Talk-us] Washington, DC parks - boundary=national_park or not?

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

I think we might want to revisit some of the assumptions we made when we
first came up with taggings for these areas.  Taking a look at [1], I don't
think that each of the individual properties on the list pass the "duck
test" of being a National Park.  However, it might be reasonable to say
that the "National Mall and Memorial Parks" or "National Capital Parks -
East" might reasonably be described as a collective NP and each tagged with
a single relation encompassing all of the properties.  I could also be
convinced that "President's Park" which contains the White House, Ellipse
and adjacent properties could reasonably be tagged as a NP.

Of the areas in the "National Capital Parks" list, it's Rock Creek Park [2]
that's maybe questionable from a "duck test" perspective, mostly because
it's not called by the title National Park (see parks signs in [3]).

The administration of DC-area parks by the NPS seems like a special case
that needs a special determination from the community.  Curious what others
think of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mall_and_Memorial_Parks
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Creek_Park
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Creek_Park#/media/File:Rock_Creek_Park_NPS_sign.jpg

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 2:38 PM Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is some disagreement on this changeset about whether the urban parks
> run by the National Park Service in DC qualify for boundary=national_park
> or not.  Being discussed on Slack as well, but figured I should post here
> as well.
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/99620241
>
> This has been discussed before with consensus documented on this wiki
> page, but it doesn't mention *all* the parks, just the most important
> ones.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Public_lands#National_Capital_Parks
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