Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

2019-04-30 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:12 PM OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > I myself have also used landuse=conservation (long ago) and/or > leisure=nature_reserve (neither of which render, not really the point). My understanding is that landuse=conservation is deprecated in favor of boundary=protected_area.

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

2019-04-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Apologies if I've already answered these. On Apr 24, 2019, at 4:34 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > I think Kevin has it right that we should tag primarily by something > about land use, not by owne/operator, although it's fine to tag > operator. I 100% agree. Yet I peruse landuse key values (except pa

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

2019-04-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
The linguist in me feels compelled to be a bit pedantic: terms like "plain language" and "human language" used to distinguish between data/code/machine kinds of "language," including what we mean by "tagging" or "codepoint" are, I believe, well-expressed with the (linguistic community) phrase "

Re: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

2019-04-30 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
At today's creation of https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Talk:Key:park:type , I introduce a proposal to reduce usage of the park:type tag (initially, in the USA) with the goal of better clarifying USA park tagging. There are a couple of "low hanging fruit" tasks we might do as a pilot run, though past