> On Jun 13, 2017, at 3:33 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > According to WP, a proving ground is the AE word for a training area > (military). > Probably "proving_ground" is highly misleading and not sufficiently specific > as a word for these. > I have found "driver training area" as a word that fits (IMHO) well the > needs. The tag could be >
Off topic, and I haven’t read the WP article, but from back in the days I worked in the defense industry a proving ground was where new military equipment was tested (i.e. proved to work). There might be some training happening at a proving ground, but that would be incidental. This was from decades ago, so maybe the military has changed how they do things. From usage, I have assumed that the proving grounds owned and/or operated by automobile manufacturing companies were the same basic idea: A place to prove new products work and to find things that need redesign before the product enters production. A driver training facility might be very similar to a auto manufacturer’s proving ground physically (high speed tracks, areas for performing skid tests, etc.). Or it might not. But in any case I believe a proving ground tag in OSM is not a good fit. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
