United States/Public lands/National Park Service

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.

Tagging

Main article: United_States/Public_lands#National_Park_Service

• owner=United States Department of Interior, National Park Service
• operator=Name of the lessee (optionally, if there is a "concessionary" relationship by the NPS to a lessee)
• protected=perpetuity
• wikipedia=*
• wikidata=*
• website=*

So for example, for a National Park, "adding together" the tags from the correct three segments of this wiki yields:

• ownership=national
• type=boundary
• boundary=protected_areaOR boundary=national_park^[2]
• name=As issued by NPS
• access=yes
• fee=* where a fee is charged for entry.
• owner=United States Department of Interior, National Park Service
• operator=Name of the lessee (optionally, if there is a "concessionary" relationship by the NPS to a lessee)
• protected=perpetuity
• wikipedia=*
• wikidata=*
• website=*
• protection_title=National Park
• protect_class=2

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national parks, but that page was never updated from 2013, is now (2020) superfluous and should be deleted, having been superceded by (draft) tagging recommendations in the above-noted Main article.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.

National monuments

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.

National preserves

National preserve on Wikipedia

National historical parks

National historic sites

National military parks

National battlefield parks

National battlefields

National battlefield site

There is only 1 national battlefield site remaining. Most have been redesignated as national battlefields/battlefield parks.

• Brices Cross Roads - Mississippi -  

National memorials

National recreation areas

National seashores

National lakeshores

National (Wild & Scenic) Rivers

National reserves

National parkways

National historic and scenic trails

Main article: United States/National Trails System

Other areas

Resources

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.

National Park Service GIS Data is available for download. GIS data from the NPS is public domain. However, any large-scale import of data should follow the Import/Guidelines.

http://npmaps.com/ provides hundreds of maps published by the National Park Service.

See also

• United_States/Public_lands#National_Park_Service