Well I have begun the work of correctly tagging all of the Minnesota WMAs (wildlife management areas). When I had done the initial upload of them I did not add the correct tag to have them rendered as a nature reserve. If anyone wants to assist in adding the leisure=nature_reserve tag to all of them that would be helpful. WMAs can be easily identified since they all contain WMA in the name and are tagged with landuse=nature_reserve and legal status=state. There are 2000+ WMAs in the state so this will take a while. I have been tagging them but it is slow going. The location given is about the middle of Minnesota.

Well thanks to Steve Chilton I have discovered that for a nature reserve to be rendered correctly the correct tag is leisure=nature_reserve and not landuse=nature_reserve. When I did the initial upload from JOSM it included about 120,000 points and took about a day to do. What I want to do is add the leisure=nature_reserve tag to all the WMAs that I uploaded in minnesota but do it all at once. I did some poking around in JOSM and am at a loss as to the best way to do this. I can't do a download of the entire state of minnesota, but I don't know if by just making the change to my local dataset (the one I created for the WMAs) will entale reuploading all 120,000 or so points. There are only a couple thoustand (about 2500) WMAs in the state which would be a good size batch. Does anyone have any good suggestions as to how I should do this?

Last weekend I finished uploading all of the state of Minnesota wildlife management areas (WMAs). These were all marked with landuse=nature_reserve and since WMAs in Minnesota allow hunting were also tagged with hunting=yes. WMAs are land that is owned by the state of Minnesota that is open to public hunting and wild life viewing. Camping is not permitted and very little is offered for services, some of them do have designated parking areas though. I have noticed that the names are being rendered on maps, but the enclosed area is not being rendered as a nature reserve. I do not know if this is because that rendering has not been done yet, or if there is a problem with the rendering.

I have been gradually adding lakes that I visit in the south metro of Minnesota These are mostly lakes around me. As part of this I have been correcting errant roads in the area since there has been some construction.

I plan on uploading a complete set of Minnesota WMA data shortly once it is properly formatted and tagged. A WMA is a wildlife management area or state owned land that is open to hunting. It is different from a state forest in that you cannot camp on them.