> Currently there are two ways to tag a conservation area: > boundary=national_park > or > boundary=protected_area + protect_class=1 to 7
There is also a third tag: leisure=nature_reserve, which is even more common, and traditionally has been used for natural conservation areas which are not National Parks or similar. Used 110k times: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dnature_reserve I don’t expect leisure=nature_reserve or boundary=national_park to disappear, but we can add additional tags to clarify the category of nature reserve or protected area Since a boundary=national_park already includes the term “National Park” in the value and it can also be tagged with “protection_title”, the only thing missing is a tag that specifically states the IUCN category, since protect_class includes other values like 1, 7, 21, 97, etc, and it appears that many mappers add protect_class without actually checking the official IUCN category. I suppose protect_class could be replaced by a new tag like iucn_category= or iucn_level=, or protect_class be changed to only include 1a,1b,2,3,4,5,6? But if Wikidata is already storing this info, maybe we don’t need a tag for it? — Joseph _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
