stevea stevea...@softworkers.com writes:
I tag landuse=forest on National Forests. If there are any included
wilderness areas, I tag them leisure=nature_reserve. Sometimes these
boundaries can be quite complex via multipolygons, but I try to keep
it as simple as this, and I seldom get
On not-so-long-ago USFS polygons, I tagged BOTH
boundary=protected_area, leaving older landuse=forest and
leisure=nature_reserve tags as they are. When protected Wilderness,
on initial creation, my tagging soups up to reflect that
Wilderness/Forest distinction: a protect_class 6 and a 1b are
Thanks for everyone's input.
It seems that the consensus and current practice is to tag US National
Forests with
boundary=protected_area
I have made the edit to Arapaho National Forest in Colorado.
Mike
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Elliott Plack elliott.pl...@gmail.com
wrote:
I've also
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_areas_of_the_United_States
Keep in mind that BLM, National Forest and National Parks can all have
*wilderness* areas that are have
stricter limits than the wider reserve.
National lands are rarely monolithic: neither landcover nor conservation
Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org
Sorry I don’t follow this topic more closely but I would think with the
mixed-used of national forests, it is best to use boundary=protected_area
After reading the wiki page
According to wikipedia
National Forest is a classification of federal lands in the United States.
National Forests are largely forest and woodland areas owned collectively
by the American people through the federal government and managed by the
United States Forest Service, part of the United
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
So it sounds like just dropping leisure=nature_reserve fixes everything.
Greg, yes, that is the course of action I would recommend, and I should
have been more explicit. Hopefully the community can come to some sort of
I tag landuse=forest on National Forests. If there are any included
wilderness areas, I tag them leisure=nature_reserve. Sometimes these
boundaries can be quite complex via multipolygons, but I try to keep
it as simple as this, and I seldom get people arguing with these
tagging conventions.
I've also imported a fair bit of state forests, parks, wildlife areas and
the like. From what I've read and interpreted, the boundary=protected_area
schema with all of its related tags are the *new* way of doing it, and
leisure=nature_reserve is the *old* way. Protected forests are literally
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area
From: Mike Thompson [mailto:miketh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 3:45 PM
To: Open Street Map Talk-US
Subject: [Talk-us] National Forest nature_reserve?
Some US National Forests, such as the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado[1
Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org writes:
Sorry I don’t follow this topic more closely but I would think with
the mixed-used of national forests, it is best to use
boundary=protected_area[1] but I know it has been discussed a bunch,
so someone might have an even better answer.
I
Some US National Forests, such as the Arapaho National Forest in
Colorado[1] are tagged leisure=nature_reserve is this correct? National
Forests per say are not nature reserves. In most cases logging, grazing,
fishing, hunting, shooting and off road vehicle use are allowed, hardly a
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org
wrote:
Hi Mike,
Sorry I don’t follow this topic more closely but I would think with the
mixed-used of national forests, it is best to use boundary=protected_area
After reading the wiki page Russ linked to, this
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