Import/Catalogue/Tasmania Parks Import

About

This page will track the progress of importing into the OSM database the boundaries and metadata for Tasmanian national parks and other protected areas.

In June 2013 I contacted Felicity Faulkner, Spatial Analyst for the Land Conservation Branch, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment. She provided me with a shapefile (details below) and gave permission to use the Tasmanian Reserve Estate Spatial Layer in the OSM database, with attribution back to http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/tasreserveestate. The shapefile used in the import has not been released publicly, however I asked Felicity if she would consider uploading it to the Australian Government's http://data.gov.au website so others can also view it. In the meantime, anyone wishing to use the shapefile should contact Felicity directly (contact details at the mentioned URL).

--Porjo (talk) 19:04, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Goals

The primary goal is to identify in the OSM database any areas of land or water that are reserved for conservation and/or recreation purposes. Of particular interest to me personally are national parks and I will be concentrating on those to begin with.

Schedule

1. Import national parks for areas not yet mapped: complete
2. Import national parks for areas with some existing data: complete
3. Import major conservation areas: complete
4. Import major forestry areas: complete
5. Import other data: see Collaborative_Australian_Protected_Areas_Database_(CAPAD) for further progress on this.

Import Data

License & Usage Conditions

The data does not appear to be under any particular license, simply Copyright State of Tasmania. It has been requested that the attribution point to the URL http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/tasreserveestate

When requesting the data, I made it clear that users of OSM data are only required to make attribution to Copyright OpenStreetMap contributors - I was told this would be OK.

Tags

Example Source Data

Proposed tag mapping:

Original Key	FOREIGN_ID	RES_CLASS	RES_NAME	RES_STATUS	NAME_SHORT	MANAGE	MINING ACT	CUSTODIAN	CREATED	EXPIRY	IUCN	FOR_ID2	CREATED2	PROJECT	AS_AT_DATE	ENVIRON	TERM	REG	NRS	MGT_PLAN	FISHING	AREA_HA
OSM Key	nill	protection_title=*	name=*	nill	nill	nill	nill	operator=*	start_date=*	end_date=*	nill	nill	nill	nill	nill	nill	nill	nill	nill	nill	nill	nill

Example Import XML:

 <relation id="xxxxxx" version="1" timestamp="2013-06-16T22:22:20Z" changeset="xxxxxxxxx" uid="xxxxxxx" user="porjo_tasparks">
    <member type="way" ref="xxxxxxxxx" role="outer"/>
    <tag k="boundary" v="protected_area"/>
    <tag k="landuse" v="forest"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Tahune Forest Reserve"/>
    <tag k="type" v="multipolygon"/>
    <tag k="start_date" v="1992-11-26"/>
    <tag k="operator" v="DPIPWE"/>
    <tag k="protection_title" v="Forest Reserve"/>
  </relation>

Static Tags

leisure=nature_reserve tag will be added to relations that fit the category.

The following tags will be applied to each relation entity aswell as to the initial import changeset:

source=Tasmanian Reserve Estate Spatial Layer 2012

attribution=DPIPWE, http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/tasreserveestate

Shapefile

Filename	md5sum	Bytes
tas_reserve_estate_gda94.shp	12df9845ffd8dcd486da806af5f8d95b	73334316
tas_reserve_estate_gda94.dbf	ce67ea5cbacb979ef68ffe622dbaed25	16214610
tas_reserve_estate_gda94.shx	2624a088ec619d0a947347fffaecc777	170772

Statistics

RES_CLASS	Feature Count
Conservation Area	4120
National Park	2504
Nature Reserve	658
State Reserve	441
Regional Reserve	362
Forest Reserve	222
Nature Recreation Area	199
Game Reserve	190
Historic Site	145
Private Nature Reserve and Conservation Covenant (NCA)	29
Indigenous Protected Area	15
Private Sanctuary and Conservation Covenant (NCA)	2

2016 expansion/update

As of mid 2016, all (if not most) protected areas within Tasmania which are classified as:

• National Parks
• Conservation Areas
• State Reserves
• Nature Recreation Areas
• Nature Reserves
• Regional Reserves
• State Reserves
• Marine Reserves
• Commonwealth Marine Reserves

Have been added or updated in OpenStreetMap with 2014 CAPAD data. See Import/Catalogue/Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) with more information.