Great idea. I just sent out a message to user webfil, who seems to have
initially mapped those lands.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 8:16 AM john whelan wrote:
> >I am guessing that some or all of the categories on that list under
> class 7 can simply be deleted.
>
> Have you attempted to contact the original mappers?
>
> We have a few mappers in Canada who have been mapping for more than ten
> years.
>
> John
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 23:28 Brian M. Sperlongano
> wrote:
>
>> 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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