I have the same problems to understand the proper tagging of landuse,
natural, leisure
it's entirely confusing when you dig deeper
rendering doesn't make it better
a national park is a boundary. there is no feature on ground.
- first it should be rendered as a boundary.
- second it's common to render it in other maps as a green background
where all other features are on top.
but landuse, natural are rendered in
random order and tagging a forest, meadow,... inside the park is
impossible with the current tags. some will be visible some won't
I know we don't tag for the renderer but there should be something in
place similar to existing maps.
On 12 May 2009, at 4:54 , Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> Apollinaris Schoell writes:
>
>> many parks are tagged with
>> leisure park
>> Is this really the recommended setting? according to the wiki park is
>> something more like golden gate park in SF or central park in NY
>> natural_reserve matches better the main purpose of national parks.
>> some places in national parks are as crowded as a city park but
>> that's
>> another story
>
> I think leisure=nature_reserve is probably better, but I have not
> gotten
> my head around the whole
>
> landuse
> natural
> leisure
>
> combination. It seems there are two orthogonal issues, and this blurs
> them. One is what is on the ground. This is what the USGS put on
> topos
> - green or white, depending on whether it was wooded or open. The
> other
> is purpose/access/etc. I think these two things are almost completely
> orthogonal.
>
> Within purpose/use, I see some landuse type things
>
> business, commercial, residential
>
> farming
> forestry land, where the prime use really is harvesting trees
>
> open public land where people can go, without deeded conservation
> restrictions
>
> conservation land where people can go
> conservation land where people can go but there is occasional
> treecutting
> conservation land where people can't go ("refuge", more or less)
>
> hunting area ("wildlife management area" in mass)
>
> Currently it seems natural=, landuse= and sort of leisure= attempt
> to be
> jointly exhaustive and sort of mutually exclusive but not really.
>
> Is it just me, or is this muddled?
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