"How do we distinguish between National Parks, State Parks, State Forests and the like? Have started adding forest areas from the landsat imagery and have been attributing as "natural=wood", but I haven't found anything that would allow me to better distinguish these areas. Obviously a National park is totally different from a State Park in terms of what can/not be done. It would also be good to link the polygons off to the relevant web site (such as www.parkweb.vic.gov.au in the case of Victoria). This issue isn't as simple as stipulating a "manager" because some National Parks not managed by Parks Victoria etc. Thoughts? Cheers"
In Victoria the National Parks Act 1975 (NPA) describes a number of different land tenures: National Parks State Parks (to all intents identical in terms of what can be done/ not done to NPs by regulation) Marine National Parks Marine Sanctuaries and a couple of others. The boundaries of the parks are described by a combination of the Act and the Certified Plan of each park. DSE website (www.dse.vic.gov.au) has PDF copies of the Cert plans. In Victoria all scheduled parks under the NPA are managed by Parks Victoria. There are a large number of other reserves with varying descriptors that are managed by PV. These are described by a wide range of Victorian legislation. To simply matter there is a master spatial dataset that describes each reserve/park and its boundaries for all of Victoria (ParkRes). I'd try getting hold of that via means legitimate. Write to DSE as the data custodian and see how you go. You could ask for Crown land tenure while you are at it. To see this data in a spatial format go to DSE online mapping applications and have a look at the data there. eg: http://nremap-sc.nre.vic.gov.au/MapShare.v2/imf.jsp?site=forestexplorer I'd echo others that the best way of identifying land tenure in the case of protected areas is by name. I'd stay away from the detail of zoning (what you can and cannot do ) within parks until the day comes all the boundaries are shown!The situation gets more confusing as the international use of National Park can cover all sorts of land tenure (Including private land) Ditto with other conventions. Write to me directly for more info. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au