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

[Joseph Eisenberg]

I don’t think any of these should be mapped as boundary=national_park. They
are standard large urban parks which happen to be administered by the
Federal gov since they are in DC, but otherwise are similar to big urban
parks in many other cities

- Joseph

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 1:03 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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