"Wild and Scenic River" is specifically mentioned on the wiki as boundary=protected_area, protect_class=5. Look at the table for nature-protected areas <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area#Nature-protected-areas>, and scroll down to the US section. Cheers, Brad
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:47 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:54 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 3 February 2018 at 12:00, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I asked this question last week of the OSM Help community: >>>> >>>> I'm looking for tagging that will indicate that a particular river in >>>> the United States is a "Wild and Scenic River" as defined by the Wild & >>>> Scenic Rivers Act. I have searched with Overpass for waterway=* that also >>>> has a scenic=yes tag but it turned up no results. Can anyone provide some >>>> guidance and/or examples? >>>> >>>> Like you, I know of the Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers >>> designations. >>> Like you, I lack a good way to tag them. >>> If nobody else has come up with anything - and do let's also ask on >>> talk-us, >>> since this is a peculiarly American designation - then let's invent >>> something >>> and Wikify it. >>> >>> Without knowing the details of just what a "Wild Scenic" river is, could >> you use the nature=conservation tag in conjunction with waterway=? >> > > Wild and Scenic Rivers are linear protected areas designated by statute in > the US. https://www.rivers.gov/ > > Designating the waterway itself is a good start, but Wild and Scenic > Rivers (also Recreational Rivers in New York State) generally also have > associated corridors that should have some sort of boundary=protected_area > (and we can debate what protect_class might be appropriate) associated with > them. > > I'm aware of several rivers that are so designated that I've visited, but > I've not done the necessary research to figure out how to represent them > and their corridors. The Federal program has downloadable Public Domain > data on its web site that I have not examined. > > My home state of New York actually has very few of them that are Federally > designated - the Delaware, on the Pennsylvania line. This is because the > State anticipated the Federal government and came up with its own > designations http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/32739.html and came up with > its own program to administer them http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/6033.html > . > > The Federal program is not universally loved: https://www.flickr.com/ > photos/66934423@N00/10605220 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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