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Mapping park boundaries: de facto, or de jure?

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Significant parts of a local county park are actually owned by the adjacent cemetery, and a few smaller pieces are privately owned. Apart from a recently-sprouted "for sale" sign, there's no obvious indication that it isn't all county parkland, though there are some subtle ones (eg. trails in the cemetery-owned part are maintained wide enough to drive on, where park-owned trails are only footpath-wide).

Should I map the de-facto boundaries, or the de-jure boundaries?

asked 07 May '16, 05:33

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I always try to mark the boundaries of individually owned or operated parts if info available. The park is likely to have boundary=protected area or leisure=park or other as appropriate. On the cemetery land and private land you can add land cover tags to the parts that are similar to the county park.

answered 07 May '16, 14:03

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I would add both, and tag a de-jure polygon as access=permissive.

answered 09 May '16, 13:50

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