@Kevin, Your reply is, as always, well thought out and well stated. I haven't had the opportunity to tag any of these so far but I've stashed a copy of this thread in my Evernotes folder.
Keep up the good work! On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> wrote: > Since nobody else has stepped forward to answer this, as far as I can > tell, let me take a whack at it: > > I think that the best tagging for a hunting reserve that the current > renderer knows about is 'leisure=nature_reserve". That's how the state > wildlife management areas in New York, the State Game Lands in > Pennsylvania, and so on are tagged. 'Nature reserves' encompass a lot of > things. > > If the chief object of the reserve is something other than hunting, then > another landuse may be appropriate. On many of the state reserves in my > area, the chief object is timber production and hunting is a secondary use. > In that case, 'landuse=forest' would be a better choice. > > In addition, moving forward, there should be appropriate protected area > tagging. If memory serves, what I used for New York's wildlife management > areas was 'boundary=protected_area protect_class=4 > protection_title="Wildlife Management Area" '. In a few cases, such as a > state game farm dedicated to the ring-necked pheasant, I used combinations > like 'protect_class=14 protection_object=species species:name="Phaisianus > colchicus" '. Similarly, for the New York City recreation areas that allow > hunting, I used the primary purpose of the land: 'protect_class=12 > protection_object=water', and added 'access=yes hunting=yes' (among other > tags). > > These schemes appear to have held up even in a very complex land > management regime. Querying some of the features visible on > http://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=41.9339&lon=-74. > 1889#map=13/41.9842/-74.2488 would give a good idea of the range of > things that can be represented, including private preserves, developed > 'front country' campgrounds, public hunting reserves, and on up to > out-and-out class-1 wilderness. (I can say from personal experience that > the mountains west of the Ashokan Reservoir are quite wild indeed, from > having climbed the 1000-m peaks there. Unless one is a very, very fast > hiker and prepared to start and finish in darkness, those nine peaks > require a multi-day off-trail expedition to complete.) > > A good example of a private preserve is found at > http://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=41.4263&lon=-74. > 0612#map=13/42.5379/-74.1473 There, the Partridge Run properties are > state-owned (under two different land management schemes, which is > unavoidably confusing!), while the Huyck Preserve belongs to a private > non-profit conservancy. > > There's no reason that a private game reserve can't be tagged as a > 'protected area' - not all protections arise from government fiat. Add > 'access=private' if you have to pay to get in, and 'site_ownership=private' > if that's relevant. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NYS_DEC_Lands and > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import:_NYCDEP_Watershed_ > Recreation_Areas were the two import proposals that I sponsored that used > the protected_area tagging scheme. Both were reasonably non-controversial. > (There is no such thing as an entirely non-controversial import proposal - > but the objections raised to the import had nothing to do with the choice > of tagging.) > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Alejandro S. <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi everybody! >> >> Is there a tag for hunting areas? I mean, big areas, sometimes fenced and >> usually you have to pay to hunt there. >> >> Kind regards, >> Alejandro Suárez >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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