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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Nearly real example:
In Poland developers call nearly all new housing under names
"Something Park"
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920

I never heard about "National Park", but lets say that it exists.
Is it taggable as boundary=national_park?

Fictional example:

in Farawaystan military calls important military bases "National parks"
Is it taggable as boundary=national_park?

I would say no, and would use boundary=national_park for protected natural wild areas.

Similarly restaurant calling itself "Supermassive dam" would not be tagged waterway=dam
(fictional example).

Restaurant called "Mysterious Garden" ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/492570920 )
is not taggable as leisure=garden based on it name.

National Park Service case is trickier as they administer also things fitting
boundary=national_park tagging.

Apr 29, 2021, 04:33 by zelonewolf at gmail.com:

> Interestingly, the National Park Service says[1]: "The President of the United States lives in a National Park" (referring to President's Park).  This was a trivia item I remember from my grade school days.  So the question is how much weight we put on the NPS calling something a National Park, as compared to the IUCN definitions of National Park (which OSM's protected area scheme is largely based on).
>
> [1] > https://www.nps.gov/whho/index.htm
> [2] > https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/about/protected-areas-categories/category-ii-national-park
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:31 PM Zeke Farwell <> ezekielf at gmail.com> > wrote:
>
>> I think I agree with you, Joseph.  I could be convinced that the larger parks qualify, but not the smaller ones. For reference, Here's a map of all the land the National Park Service owns in Washington, DC.  I had no idea they owned all these little parks.
>> https://arcg.is/04eHzT
>>

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