I fully agree with Martin here. The place=* key is used in OSM to indicate that a particular
location is known by a particular name, and that is independent of details of the usage.
It might be that Joseph's perspective is driven by his intense work on the
Carto style,
where it has to be decided if a name is being rendered in the place-style or in
the park-style.
However OSM is more than rendering, it is about analysing the data. And when I
ask e.g. Nominatim
or Overpass where all the Squares in my town are, I wish them to be included by the place=square tag
and not lose some where the place tag has been omitted just because they are filled with a park.
tom
On 21. Mar 2020, at 01:34, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
Check if any of the place=square features in your area should instead
be junction=yes (for a named street intersection or road junction) or
leisure=park or place=neighborhood.
On 22.03.2020 12:24, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I don’t agree that an open space inside a settlement that is mainly used as a
traffic junction, cannot be a place=square at the same time.
Squares are generally deliberately left / created open / spaces in contrast to
space occupied by buildings (they are voids cut out from building areas, places
where the road enlargens, typically at crossings or placed as rhythmic
sequences within a street).
They come in all scales, as big central places with significance for the whole
city (or even nation) or as small squares at crossings in a residential area.
They might be frequent or rare, depending on the cultural context, and their
characteristics will depend generally on context.
There is no need to impose arbitrary size limits or usage requirements (both,
on the square and at its borders), nor to make the question of leisure=park
junction=yes exclusive to place=square. They can perfectly coexist.
IMHO place=square is a tag for a toponym that refers to a void inside a built
environment, and size and usage is implicit from geometry and other objects.
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