Santa Cruz County, California: Difference between revisions

In 2009, we began a convention with parks, starting with [[user:Apo42]]'s tagging of State Park data that included {{Tag|park:type|state_park}}. In Santa Cruz County (and elsewhere afterwards), this was extended to include {{Tag|park:type|county_park}} and {{Tag|park:type|city_park}} for parks with management/jurisdiction at those admin_levels (there were explorations to combine these tags with {{key|admin_level||}} at some point) and {{Tag|park:type|private_park}} to private parks (for example, a small decathlon-event park with {{key|access||private}}), private campgrounds and for-fee short-term trailer parks. The point was not to make these render (yet) but such tags are useful in a search query, for example. A proto-proposal ({{tag|park_level}}, see {{Tag|park:type}}) to combine these tags with {{key|boundary||}} so these render with different color dashing was developed but never more widely submitted to the OSM community; the plan was for rendering to be extended to display parks tagged with state_park, county_park, city_park and private_park using different colors of dashing. (TodayIn later versions of mapnik, {{key|boundary||national_park}} renders in mapnik with green dashes, and it was a partially accepted OSM convention that this tag was appropriate on state parks, though this now appears to be discouraged). See [https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Talk:Key:park:type this] Discussion, which offers a proposal to deprecate {{Tag|park:type}} in preference of more modern, widely accepted and better documented park tagging standards. Included is the newer tagging scheme of {{key|boundary||protected_area}}, utilizing {{key|protection_title||}} and {{key|protect_class||}} keys (themselves not well-developed regarding rendering) which may be applicable to some remaining park-like areas now denoted {{tag|leisure|park}} (especially "undeveloped parks" owned by a city or county park agency). Progress on this transition has already begun here, for example [http://www.osm.org/way/686353436 this] used to be tagged {{tag|leisure|park}}, but is now more accurately tagged {{tag|boundary|protected_area}}. A distinct trend has emerged to actively deprecate {{Tag|park:type}}: especially with the {{Tag|park:type|city_park}} value, simply change this to {{Tag|ownership|municipal}}.