Fwiw, I tag them all "park". Is there any legal difference? It occurs to me that many gardens have fences and gates and are only open during certain hours, but I don't know if that's a general property.
Note that most of the parks in central Melbourne are called "garden" (Flagstaff Gardens, Treasury Gardens, Carlton Gardens, Fitzroy Gardens), but presumably that's just historical... Steve On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Roy Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:13 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4 June 2010 08:39, Roy Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:34 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> public parks are usually big open spaces, public gardens are often >>>> themed and or run by botanical societies etc... >>> >>> Using that definition, what would you call the Brisbane City Botanic >>> Gardens, then? http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:BASE::pc=PC_1368 >>> There are big open spaces... >> >> I haven't seen the Botanical Garden in Brisbane, although I should at >> some point, but this would fall under themed and/or run by botanical >> societies I would have thought, yes there may be open spaces but the >> Garden would have various themes running through different sections. > > Ok, clear enough: if it is themed or has themed sections, it's a > public garden, otherwise it's a public park. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
