Hi all,The talk-us list brought up a good point, that we (for the GeoBase/CanVec) import. ... BTW, EVERYTHING that is available on the geogratis.ca site which is under the same license is up for grabs. We haven't yet listest EVERYTHING which COULD be imported. ... Anyway, in Canada parks/forests/protected area's are also all messed up and confusing.
We got local parks, regional parks. .. Which have varying levels of protection. ... in some cases, with a vote of the local government, land can be sold off to developers for suburbia. .. or partially sold for "Arbor Cleansing... clearing 'debris' so then trees wont fall on paths, in the 'nature park'. ... or we can Pave our way through the 'nature' park. We also have Aboriginal/Native Reserves... again these are different, as it could (probably) be sold off. We also have Unesco Biosphere reserves. Protected areas. We have provincial parks... and national Parks.. run by 2 sets of governments... we have inter-provincial parks.. a shared government run park... So in summation, the best bet is to make an 'educated guess' and mark down only what we know to be true. ... sometimes marking "note=national_forest" and having the actual tag "landuse=park", "natural=forest" is better. I prefer to tag "operator=BC Parks" or "operator=Parks Canada" Remember that the tags that actually show that the physical thing you are looking at is; can be different than what the government says it is. Ie. .. because a sign says "national park ahead", the entire political area can be shown as a dashed line area.... but the physical land can be different. .. ie. if there is an area which is a marsh, and an area of high density forest (evergreens) we would like to note that on the map, with different icons/symbols. So yes, we can have the best of both worlds. .. so park rangers can be happy, and edit the map themselves, when the park changes boundaries. BC Parks: I was told that BC Parks "acquires land". So what does that mean? Well, we know that ALL land is owned by someone... the default ownership is "Crown Land"... and from there it is registered and divided by different groups... Reserve land etc. Public land. .. But there are always restrictions of what it means to be 'public land' ... it could mean that you are allowed to hike through it, without a permit. .. but it doesn't mean that you can cut down trees and start digging. Anyway, the purpose of this note is that there are 2 forms of tagging. .. tagging the physical natural elements, and tagging the political land ownership. IMO, land ownership is shown by the boundary lines, and physical elements are shown by icons and symbols and area colours. Cheers, Sam Vekemans Across Canada Trails P.S. If i had my way, i would tag the whole area as 'biohazard' so then it will be left alone... but thats just me :0) ... nor is it realistic.
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