I added some comments to the discussion page - 

I would like another value of camp site added - a trekking campsite. 

There needs to be a very hard separation between a spot where camping is 
“suggested” (perhaps by people who know where some good places to make camp) 
when trekking vs  a clearing near a road for people to crash on a road trip, a 
campsite for thick canvas tents on a wooden platform (like a boy scout camp or 
a city park camp in Japan), a place for you to roll up with the minivan and a 6 
person tent, and a place for a full-on caravan. 

I feel this proposal takes care of the latter, but the Backpacking/trekking 
sites is very murky - it may be informal, but to use the same iconography of 
something that has any services whatsoever, or might be chosen because of 
proximity to access (along a roard or a quiet spot near a town) - a trekking 
site will be very inaccessible and the only amenities are probably trees and a 
stream, and a soft place to pitch a tent on, and that’s it.

 So I propose a value just for places where it’s the most ideal spot in a 
wilderness area to pitch a tent (not everywhere possible, of course). 

I can think of 2 or 3 camp sites I used when trekking that were the ideal 
camping spot for an entire lake or area, and I’d like to mark them to suggest 
them to future trekkers - but I don’t want to fool people into thinking there 
is some source of water or a bed or a roof, or anything besides a good spot to 
pitch a dome tent - so I suggest that iconography be different (a dome tent vs 
the standard triangle tent) to show this drastic difference. 


Javbw 
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