On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 17:01 +0000, Elliott Plack wrote: > Greetings, > Thoughts on the small county properties? >
An alternative might be landuse=conservation. "nature_preserve" to me seems closer to track of land that has special ecological significance, while conservation seems more utilitarian and that matches the description you gave for these tracts. There seems to be a lot of ambiguity among all these tags and either choice doesn't seem entirely wrong. James > > Elliott > > > > On Fri Apr 18 2014 at 3:16:39 PM Elliott Plack > <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings Import Community, > > > Firstly, pardon the duplicate message. The original was sent > in error without a subject. > > > After SOTMUS, I have decided to resurrect the import of > Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources land boundary data. This > import will take public domain Maryland polygon data that > represents the official boundaries of state parks and > protected areas and will bring them into OSM using a variety > of tags. I have documented this in the link below, complete > with tables, diagrams, examples, and a link to the data on > GitHub. > > > Brief Summary: Maryland has made this data public domain. The > plan is to import this data in manual mode only. Local editors > will examine the data on an individual basis and then upload > it when it meets tagging standards. The tagging will be fairly > comprehensive. We'll either > use leisure=park or leisure=nature_reserve depending on the > data dictionary on the wiki. We'll also use > the boundary=protected scheme and I have written a key for > each state land type and corresponding protect_class type. > > > Benefits: This data in OSM will be fantastic for basemaps, as > parks and natural protected land boundaries are often hard to > discern based solely on imagery. Local surveys are impractical > given the immense size of some of these areas. Coupled with > trails surveyed by other local mappers, or using the new > Strava slide tool, the OSM map can often outperform the > official state maps in terms of accuracy and informational > content. > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland_State_Parks > > > > https://github.com/talllguy/maryland-dnr-osm-import/tree/master/dataWGS84/DNR%20Lands%20and%20Conservation%20Easements > > > Looking forward to any comments. > > > Thanks, > > > -- > Elliott Plack > http://about.me/elliottp > _______________________________________________ > Imports-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
