[OSM-talk] open space land

[Charles Basenga Kiyanda]

Ah... I see what you mean now. So I take it this space is a county land? 
My best guess would be

landuse = forest
leisure = park
?

Am not too sure. There is a talk-us mailing list as well, maybe someone 
on there would have a better idea. I'm in New Mexico and I don't think 
we have the equivalent of a county level land that's not really a 
municipal park.

Charles

Nathan Mixter wrote:
> Thanks for the response. The area in question is land that usually is 
> near a county or state park in the U.S. Usually the area will be about 
> the size of a regular park or a little larger. Sometimes the borders 
> of the land could be touching the park borders. This land is general 
> purpose land, i.e. hiking, biking, horse riding etc. The area doesn't 
> include dense trees, so there is no logging or anything. It's pretty 
> much set aside for its natural beauty. The specific land I was looking 
> at was in California listed under openspaceauthority.org. Thanks.
>
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> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] open space land
>
> May I ask which country that's in? For example in the US (where I am) 
> there are several different types of open space land. National 
> Forests, National Parks, State Parks, State Forests to name a few. All 
> of those have different regulations when it comes to land use (whether 
> you can cut wood, etc.) for example. leisure = park may not 
> automatically apply to all of them.
>
> Now this is in the US. I know that Germany has, for example, state and 
> national forests which are typically much more groomed than US 
> national forests. Back when I lived in one of them (I'm not even 
> kidding) at the end of the 90s, they appeared to be more like really 
> large parks than forests, at least to my North American eye. I would 
> personally see it fit to tag those as leisure = park, but don't take 
> this for advice as I don't map stuff in Germany and german mappers 
> would obviously know better.
>
> So before giving more precise opinions, I would say we would have to 
> know which jurisdiction you are in, what those open space land 
> actually look like and how they're actually used.
>
> My two cents.
>
> Charles
>
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> > The government sets aside land for open space land.
> > These usually have specific and boundaries. Are they
> > worth adding? Should they be treated as leisure=park
> > in OSM?
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