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

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 2:41 AM 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?
>

Does the Polish Ministerstwo Środowiska describe them as a National Park on
their official website?  No?  Then it isn't a comparable example.

That said, I would tend to think that the NPS description of "the President
lives in a National Park" to be a case of marketing rather than true NP
nomenclature.  If you look at the listing at (
https://www.nps.gov/state/dc/index.htm), it does not give a "National Park"
heading to President's Park (nor other properties in DC) which seem to
confirm this to be marketing rather than a deliberate categorization.
Whereas, if you look at the list for Arizona (
https://www.nps.gov/state/az/index.htm), it gives a "National Park" header
to Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, etc.  Note that I would consider the NPS
listing to be the authoritative source on this and not 3rd party websites.

Regarding the "The Civil War Defences of Washington", which has no NPS
nomenclature assigned to them, to me, these are similar to and should be
tagged in a way that's similar to National Historic Sites, which we do not
tag as National Parks (as presently described in the US Public Lands
article).

In summary, it seems clear to me that the collection of parks formerly
known as the "National Capital Parks", are not equivalent in form, fit, and
function to places like Yosemite NP, Glacier NP, Grand Canyon NP, etc, so
I'd tend to agree with the sentiment that these should not be tagged as
national parks, but rather as parks and/or historic sites as appropriate
for each property.
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