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This page is a work in progress! The content is likely incomplete, inaccurate or empty.
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government's Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various protection_title=* designations.
This wiki page attempts to document the status of units controlled wholly or partially by the National Park Service. Most of these are within the National Park System, of which there are 419 units.
The full route of a National Trails should tagged with a route relation as described below. The tagging in this row is applied only to federal land that is dedicated to the trail, its immediate right of way, or trail-specific features along the route. Protected area tagging should not be applied to areas where the trail is routed over non-federal land, trails, and/or highways.
leisure=park for maintained/manicured dedicate federal park land
So for example, for a National Park, "adding together" the tags from the correct three segments of this wiki yields:
The important priority for tagging OSM's NPS administered relations is standardization. While this wiki comprehensively denotes NPS units grouped by protection_title=*, it defers tagging to the standardization at the Main article.
There is also US National Park Service Tagging, early in the process of being harmonized with the Main article. As a sub-wiki to that, US_National_Park_Service_Tagging:_Boundaries was created to recommend tagging for national parks, but that page was never updated from 2013, is now (2020) superfluous and should be deleted, having been superceded by (draft) tagging recommendations in the above-noted Main article.
National parks
There are 63 national parks in the United States. 62 of them are finished in OSM. Overpass Query
This is for national monuments administered by the National Park Service. There are other national monuments administered by other agencies. I will create a wiki page just for national monuments in the future. All NPS national monument boundaries are done! However, this does not mean that trails, amenities, and other POIs are finished.
An asterisk denotes national monuments administered as part of another area. For example, Oregon Caves National Monument is listed as Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve on the NPS website.
Right away is part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and has not been seperated. Also, Parkway is not physically complete, and there are not current plans to complete it.
The National Park Service creates wonderful PDF maps of the parks. Harper's Ferry Center is a one-stop source for maps and park documentation. Some of those PDF documents are geospatial (geopdf) PDFs. Once they are converted into geotiff format, they can be used as a layer in JOSM to assist entering data. Use the US National Park Service Tagging as a guide when using National Park Service PDF maps to enter points of interest (POIs) into OpenStreetMap.