Re: [talk-au] Using "national_park" rather than "protected_area" tags where appropriate

2017-12-06 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 07/12/17 14:24, cleary wrote: In the wiki entry for "Key:leisure", the main statement is that the leisure tag is for places people go in their spare time. Ignoring the obvious problem, which is that this is just the usual sub-optimal tagging you get in OSM (should have been

Re: [talk-au] Using "national_park" rather than "protected_area" tags where appropriate

2017-12-06 Thread Warin
I too don't think the leisure tag should be added to national parks as a default. What is the point then of the national park tagging? Some sections of national parks are not available for leisure so the leisure tag is inappropriate, these include 'wilderness' areas. Those areas have a higher

Re: [talk-au] Using "national_park" rather than "protected_area" tags where appropriate

2017-12-06 Thread cleary
In the wiki entry for "Key:leisure", the main statement is that the leisure tag is for places people go in their spare time. That is why I had thought that it was not an appropriate tag to use for places where people cannot usually go. However, if there is general agreement that this is an

Re: [talk-au] Using "national_park" rather than "protected_area" tags where appropriate

2017-12-06 Thread Leith Bade
I also find it interesting that state forests in Australia are treated quite differently then state forests in the US. In the US they get borders which are thinner then national parks, whereas here they just show up as a forested area (even if the entire state forest is not actually covered in

Re: [talk-au] Using "national_park" rather than "protected_area" tags where appropriate

2017-12-06 Thread Leith Bade
I agree as I recently encountered this issue. Following the GitHub issue on the protected area tag, it seems support in the renderer is a still the source of a large amount of debate and argument because of the large number of clases and regional variations in use of the tag. Thanks, Leith Bade

[talk-au] Using "national_park" rather than "protected_area" tags where appropriate

2017-12-06 Thread cleary
There are long-standing problems in relation to the rendering of protected areas in OpenStreetMap. This is not surprising as there many protection classes (there is provision for up to 99) including nature-protected, resources-protected and social-protected areas. Presumably various types of