On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:53, cleary <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good mapping practice is to keep administrative boundaries such as state > parks, conservation areas, suburbs etc separate from natural features such > as water, waterways, woods etc. While they sometimes approximate, they > rarely coincide exactly. > > Tagging a state park as natural=wood is usually inappropriate because > there will, nearly always, be parts of the park that are unwooded. Best to > map the park with its official boundary and then map the natural features > separately using other unofficial sources such as survey and satellite > imagery. >
Agreed, though as a rough first pass it has been common to tag natural=wood on the administrative boundary if it's 90% correct, but eventually as the mapping becomes more detailed separate natural=wood is the way to go.
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