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

[Joseph Eisenberg]

While the parks in the District of Columbia are administered by the
National Park Service, the Service also manages National Monuments and
other features which are not considered National Parks.

None of the parks in DC are on the list of 63 "National Parks" in wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States

The Nation Park Service mentioned that they administer 432 sites,
including all sorts of different kinds of protection and names: National
Battlefield Parks, National Historical Parks, National Memorials, National
Recreation Areas, as well as the big National Monuments and National Parks:
https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/how-many-national-parks-are-there

The DC urban parks are in the "Other" category:


*"Other Designations (11):Though it may seem like the designations listed
above cover every site, there are special sites within the National Park
System that are designated otherwise. Places like Wolf Trap National Park
for the Performing Arts, the parks along our National Mall and Memorial
Parks, and even the White House fall into this “other designations”
category."*

- Joseph Eisenberg

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:41 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us <
talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> 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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