Recently another wiki user marked landuse=conservation as "deprecated" on the Map Features page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:landuse&curid=11273&diff=2071912&oldid=2068278
This same user had marked the page itself as deprecated back in 2017: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Alanduse%3Dconservation&type=revision&diff=1498145&oldid=387459 Previously the Tag:landuse=conservation page had been redirected to a proposal since 2009: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/conservation *"Conservation land is land protected from development.* *It is left in more or less a natural state.* *It is often maintained to a very limited extent, such as annual mowing to prevent forest growth, removal of invasive species, replanting, or dealing with or preventing erosion.* *The public typically, but not always, has access, as it is a valuable recreational resource. (Sometimes the public has no physical way of getting to it, or is not allowed for water protection reasons, safety, etc)."* Now boundary=protected_area is probably the more common way to tag this concept. Comparison: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/boundary=protected_area/landuse=conservation landuse=conservation is declining since 2015: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=conservation#chronology While boundary=protected area mostly increases, though there are some jumps up and down from imports I imagine: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/boundary=protected_area#chronology Is it correct to say that landuse=conservation has been deprecated, practically, by boundary=protected_area <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area>, even though that tag has not been approved? -- Joseph Eisenberg
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