On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 08:28 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2012-07-27 06:54, Werner Poppele wrote: > >In the US [1] I found some trailer parks tagged landuse=trailer_park. Is > >that ok ? Any other recommendations ? The tag tourism=camp_site seems to > >be not quite correct IMHO. > > > >taginfo > >landuse=trailer_park 8 > >amenity=trailer_park 23 > >tourism=camp_site 40196 > > It depends on what you mean by trailer park. For a place that is rented for > a short term by the day or week to park your RV or towed camper in, I used > tourism=caravan_site per > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dcaravan_site . These are referred to as touring caravan parks.
> > For places called "mobile home parks", which are leased by the year (at > least), in which to semi-permanently place a pre-manufactured (aka mobile) > home that requires a great deal of work to move, I tag landuse=residential, > and add it to a relation (with role=boundary) that is tagged: > type=site > site=housing > housing_type=mobile_home > > e.g. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?box=yes&bbox=-117.9384%2C33.63424%2C-117.93623%2C33.63606 > > These are sometimes grouped together with the first type, usually > pejoratively. Having stayed in both types of places, they are nothing alike. > There is also a 3rd usage. That is where the mobile home are large and rarely move, much like a residential trailer park, but they are owned for holiday/recreational purposes. They tend to have rules about not being permanently occupied. Often they are sublet for a week, two at a time. The difference here is nobody is a permanent resident, has postal deliveries or the address on their driving license (other than any staff/owners that is). Phil _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
