Another place to discuss this might be https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Talk:United_States/Public_lands , an emerging place to try to unravel the highly complex multi-jurisdictional, part human-recreation (part not), "public lands" in the USA. This wiki originally started from a multi-volunteer effort to try to better express semantics regarding "parks" — especially "state parks" and "county parks," somewhat nightmare-ish in OSM, but with greater understanding and many voices, perhaps many years from now, I believe these issues can be solved, if not better expressed than they are today.
The issues discussed, like inholdings, wilderness-OVER-forest (rather than subsets of) are what I and others here have mightily struggled with for over a decade, especially as good data (like USFS shapefiles and CPAD) have emerged and are available to us, AND update over time! The topics (and concomitant tagging) are complex and not easy for OSM's tradition of wide consensus to agree upon. Nonetheless, we should continue to strive to do our best. I am heartened to see good discussion like this here. Please know that when you ask such questions, and others (well-intentioned, intelligent, familiar with the topics and difficulties involved...) chime in, you walk into a very large space with seriously complex semantics. OSM can (and will, I believe) better untangle these issues, but we must give ourselves the time and polite space for the many voices, points of view and deep knowledge we have to synthesize into how we best do this. A good starting point is "this is difficult, there are widely differing points of view, there's a lot of history in OSM and new schemes have emerged while older data remain in the map." See, that right there is a lot to chew on! There are likely multiple ways forward, really. SteveA California _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
