>>tourism=information "*May include Tourist information centres and offices.* " http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dinformation >>information=office "*An office where you can get information about a town or region.*" http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:information
Yes, I suppose those two tags work for visitor center. That's what I've been using up to now. That said, IMO the ranger_station is a different type of amenity from the information office described in the above tags. Just a couple of simple additions to the wiki page would clarify those differences. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:38 PM, johnw <[email protected]> wrote: > we should be able to map the icon to a generic tag, such as > amenity=camp_office or something, or map the more private “ranger_station” > facilities in another matter, and leave amenity=ranger_station to these > more public facing facilities that people are looking for. > > The name “ranger station” can always be denoted in the name field, and the > tag something more generic for further mapping around the world. > > Really interesting about the park service involvement. > > Javbw > > > On Mar 5, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Dave Swarthout <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It sounds like the original meaning of ranger_station might have >> described what I would term a Visitor Center. After reading these responses >> to my post, and realizing that there are many parks with visitor centers >> (even here in Thailand) that cannot be tagged under the present system, its >> obvious to me that we need to add a new tag amenity=visitor_center. Visitor >> Centers range from simple to quite lavish (think Yellowstone, Denali NPs); >> these are definitely not ranger stations. >> > > A vast number of park maps have a thing called a ranger station, with a > standard symbol (a cabin with a flag over it). > > That specific symbol svg graphic, the tag, and the name all came from the > US National Park Service in fact, when > the park service donated data to Open Street Map. > > There may be a reader expectation that what's called on the ground a > "ranger station" is in fact mapped as a ranger station. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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