On 05-Oct-17 01:58 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
Thanks everyone for your thoughts re arboretums
Why I brought this up - had a look at the historic=monument tag
yesterday morning, which lead me to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CheckTheMonuments &
http://www.historic.place/themes/monuments/map.html.
That showed 4 monuments in my general area, 2 of which should
apparently be memorials, 1 I'm not sure about & this one:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-28.00759/153.38376.
The "Regional Arboretum" is shown as a monument &, by the
conversations here, almost certainly shouldn't be (maybe it should be
a Memorial? - will have to get up there & check it out on the ground);
while the "ADF Grove" is, almost certainly correctly, a Memorial.
Now, if the Regional Arboretum isn't actually marked as being a
memorial to anybody / thing, & therefore not a memorial, how should it
then appear in OSM? The Botanic Gardens as a whole are shown as
landuse=recreation_ground; leisure=park. From a Google satellite shot
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-28.0070891,153.3834806,174m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
<https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-28.0070891,153.3834806,174m/data=%213m1%211e3?hl=en>,
the Regional Arboretum is only an open group of trees, so how should
it be mapped?
It's definitely not intended for forestry / logging purposes, so it's
not landuse=forest
It's hardly a forest, so not natural=wood
Doesn't produce anything so not landuse=orchard
Leisure=garden? Garden brings to mind flowers & bushes, not trees, but
I guess it may still apply?
Sydney Royal Botanic Garden is tagged as
leisure=garden
garden:type=botanical
Possibly
leisure=garden
garden:type=arboretum??
I think this is the best solution I have - not documented and no actual
existence in the data base.
Way 21370319 (Nottingham Arboretum) is tagged as
name=Arboretum
leisure=park
this looks wrong to me .. the name may just be a description.
The Australian Canberra arboretum is tagged as
tourist=attraction
A quick look has arboretums tagged as
forest (!), conservation, grass (!), leisure=nature_reserve and probably
other things.
Will be interesting to see where this goes.
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I have mapped some 'local' memorials/monuments ...
including one to a cat (Trim - Matthew Flinders cat), one to the WW1
Australian horses.
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