[talk-au] park vs nature reserve

2013-06-25 Thread Andrew Elwell
Can someone point me to guidelines for where the .au distinction between the two lies? I'm trying to map piney lakes (see http://www.melvillecity.com.au/environment/piney-lakes/copy_of_piney-lakes-bushlands ) which has a park-like southern area and a bushlands reserve to the north. Do I split the

Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve

2013-06-25 Thread Paul Norman
From: Andrew Elwell [mailto:andrew.elw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:43 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve Can someone point me to guidelines for where the .au distinction between the two lies? I'm trying to map piney lakes (see

Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve

2013-06-25 Thread SomeoneElse
Paul Norman wrote: It's important to remember that leisure=park doesn't apply to all parks. I'm guessing that the second park in that sentence is used in the North American national/state park sense whereas the one in the original question usage sounded closer to British English usage*.

Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve

2013-06-25 Thread Paul Norman
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:47 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve Paul Norman wrote: It's important to remember that leisure=park doesn't apply to all parks. I'm guessing

Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve

2013-06-25 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Andrew Elwell andrew.elw...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone point me to guidelines for where the .au distinction between the two lies? Great question. For my part, I'm pretty lazy and just tag everything as leisure=park, and hope that someone else will clean it up

Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve

2013-06-25 Thread David Bannon
Andrew, I don't think the current definitions in OSM provide well for the range of 'parks' you will encounter. I think its probably best to try and at least define the borders between various sections, even if you end up labeling them all with the same. For example near me there is a section of