Brad is right: Wild, Scenic and Recreational rivers are already defined as protect_class=5. Use the protection_title tag to specify the exact type of protection. Cheers, Matej
On 3 February 2018 at 06:56, Brad Neuhauser <[email protected]> wrote: > "Wild and Scenic River" is specifically mentioned on the wiki as > boundary=protected_area, protect_class=5. Look at the table for > nature-protected areas, and scroll down to the US section. Cheers, Brad > > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:47 PM, Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:54 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 3 February 2018 at 12:00, Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Dave Swarthout <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I asked this question last week of the OSM Help community: >>>>> >>>>> I'm looking for tagging that will indicate that a particular river in >>>>> the United States is a "Wild and Scenic River" as defined by the Wild & >>>>> Scenic Rivers Act. I have searched with Overpass for waterway=* that also >>>>> has a scenic=yes tag but it turned up no results. Can anyone provide some >>>>> guidance and/or examples? >>>>> >>>> Like you, I know of the Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers >>>> designations. >>>> Like you, I lack a good way to tag them. >>>> If nobody else has come up with anything - and do let's also ask on >>>> talk-us, >>>> since this is a peculiarly American designation - then let's invent >>>> something >>>> and Wikify it. >>>> >>> Without knowing the details of just what a "Wild Scenic" river is, could >>> you use the nature=conservation tag in conjunction with waterway=? >> >> >> Wild and Scenic Rivers are linear protected areas designated by statute in >> the US. https://www.rivers.gov/ >> >> Designating the waterway itself is a good start, but Wild and Scenic >> Rivers (also Recreational Rivers in New York State) generally also have >> associated corridors that should have some sort of boundary=protected_area >> (and we can debate what protect_class might be appropriate) associated with >> them. >> >> I'm aware of several rivers that are so designated that I've visited, but >> I've not done the necessary research to figure out how to represent them and >> their corridors. The Federal program has downloadable Public Domain data on >> its web site that I have not examined. >> >> My home state of New York actually has very few of them that are Federally >> designated - the Delaware, on the Pennsylvania line. This is because the >> State anticipated the Federal government and came up with its own >> designations http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/32739.html and came up with its >> own program to administer them http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/6033.html. >> >> The Federal program is not universally loved: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/66934423@N00/10605220 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
