Hello neighbors to the north, I have been working to clean up and improve documentation on tagging of protected areas. I've found that in many cases the documentation on the wiki does not match how tagging is actually done in real life, so I am working to make the wiki more accurate and make the information more useful to mappers.
The wiki [1] lists seven different categories that are tagged protect_class=7 in Canada. I was able to find wikipedia links for a few of them, but the other items in the list looked like generic terms that were just tossed in there by the original author ~10 years ago. So.. what does protect_class=7 tagging mean in Canada? Does this have real meaning or is it a long-ago forgotten convention? Since this value does not render on the default map, it is always paired with something like leisure=nature_reserve to force the drawing of an outline. An overpass inspection [2] shows that this value is almost entirely in Quebec. I am guessing that some or all of the categories on that list under class 7 can simply be deleted. I'd like to understand how this tagging is actually used in order to make the documentation useful and/or understand what the Canadian consensus for how these values *should* be used. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:protect_class [2] https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10bS -Brian (Rhode Island, USA)
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