I will note that the Massachusetts, USA mapping community does believe that there is a distinction between the two tags, as noted here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Massachusetts/Conservation However, this usage and definition seems to be specific to that particular community and is not a widely shared viewpoint. I was under the impression that landuse=conservation was deprecated, but if that was resulting from an arbitrary wiki edit and not a formal proposal, perhaps it should not be marked deprecated in the wiki. As to the question of whether landuse=conservation and boundary=protected_area mean exactly the same thing, I don't think we can answer that easily, because boundary=protected_area lacks a formal definition. My prior, current, and hopefully future proposal(s) are in part working towards developing that definition of boundary=protected_area, and aligning its meaning to the way wikipedia defines[1] protected area. My personal *opinion* is that boundary=protected_area should deprecate landuse=conservation, but there are certainly multiple viewpoints out there. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_area On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:26 PM Joseph Eisenberg < joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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