Ah... I see what you mean now. So I take it this space is a county land? My best guess would be
landuse = forest leisure = park ? Am not too sure. There is a talk-us mailing list as well, maybe someone on there would have a better idea. I'm in New Mexico and I don't think we have the equivalent of a county level land that's not really a municipal park. Charles Nathan Mixter wrote: > Thanks for the response. The area in question is land that usually is > near a county or state park in the U.S. Usually the area will be about > the size of a regular park or a little larger. Sometimes the borders > of the land could be touching the park borders. This land is general > purpose land, i.e. hiking, biking, horse riding etc. The area doesn't > include dense trees, so there is no logging or anything. It's pretty > much set aside for its natural beauty. The specific land I was looking > at was in California listed under openspaceauthority.org. Thanks. > > -- > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] open space land > > May I ask which country that's in? For example in the US (where I am) > there are several different types of open space land. National > Forests, National Parks, State Parks, State Forests to name a few. All > of those have different regulations when it comes to land use (whether > you can cut wood, etc.) for example. leisure = park may not > automatically apply to all of them. > > Now this is in the US. I know that Germany has, for example, state and > national forests which are typically much more groomed than US > national forests. Back when I lived in one of them (I'm not even > kidding) at the end of the 90s, they appeared to be more like really > large parks than forests, at least to my North American eye. I would > personally see it fit to tag those as leisure = park, but don't take > this for advice as I don't map stuff in Germany and german mappers > would obviously know better. > > So before giving more precise opinions, I would say we would have to > know which jurisdiction you are in, what those open space land > actually look like and how they're actually used. > > My two cents. > > Charles > > ---- Original message ---- > > > The government sets aside land for open space land. > > These usually have specific and boundaries. Are they > > worth adding? Should they be treated as leisure=park > > in OSM? > >________________ > >_______________________________________________ > --- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk