Re: [Tagging] tagging for fairgrounds

2020-08-27 Thread Warin
On 28/8/20 8:05 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 05:31, Richard Welty > wrote: again in the US, state and county fairgrounds are permanent facilities which function as event space when the fair is not actually going on. the

Re: [Tagging] tagging for fairgrounds

2020-08-27 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 05:31, Richard Welty wrote: > > again in the US, state and county fairgrounds are permanent facilities > which function as event space when the fair is not actually going on. > the midway is usually temporary, but the buildings for, say, > agricultural exhibits are

Re: [Tagging] tagging for fairgrounds

2020-08-27 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 15:29 -0400, Richard Welty wrote: > On 8/27/20 12:35 PM, Paul Allen wrote: > > As is fair. Without further qualification, I'd interpret "fair" as > > a > > (temporary, mobile) funfair: an annual event with fairground rides, > > stalls, etc. I think American usage may tend

Re: [Tagging] tagging for fairgrounds

2020-08-27 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/27/20 12:35 PM, Paul Allen wrote: > > As is fair.  Without further qualification, I'd interpret "fair" as a > (temporary, mobile) funfair: an annual event with fairground rides, > stalls, etc. I think American usage may tend more towards trade fairs. > > As for mapping the temporary funfair

Re: [Tagging] tagging for fairgrounds

2020-08-27 Thread Paul Allen
On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 17:19, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 27/08/2020 17:04, Richard Welty wrote: > > "fairgrounds" is more of an American rather than a British English way > of referring to these sorts of things, I think. As is fair. Without further qualification, I'd interpret "fair" as a

Re: [Tagging] tagging for fairgrounds

2020-08-27 Thread Andy Townsend
On 27/08/2020 17:04, Richard Welty wrote: so i'd like to propose one of these two "fairgrounds" is more of an American rather than a British English way of referring to these sorts of things, I think.  See https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2020-February/thread.html#24188 for

[Tagging] tagging for fairgrounds

2020-08-27 Thread Richard Welty
i've had a little discussion of this over on the slack tagging channel. i'm currently working on some historic World's Fair/Exhibition sites, and also have reviewed a number of fair grounds in the US. we really don't have any tagging specific to these sorts of structured park-like areas that