Warin, I am not sure I agree.
There are a number of what are officially Rest Areas that are set up,
used and officially blessed as camp sites. Now the term "Camp Site"
might mean different things to different people. To people with a
caravan or motor home, and there are a lot of them, a camp site is
somewhere to camp with their caravan or motor home.
I'm sorry (for you) that so many of them are not suitable for a tent but
the truth is there is a big demand from caravan (camper, motor home etc)
users and an inability to distinguish between sites that make good camp
sites and ones that don't would be a problem.
IMHO, we are talking about "camp sites" as somewhere you camp, if it is
unsuitable for a tent in your opinion, then a tag saying just that may
be appropriate. Importantly, you would be allowed erect a tent, even if
you would be uncomfortable doing so.
Worth noting that the division between a tent and a caravan is possibly
vague, while the majority of campers on the road (excluding xmas and
easter time) are in recognizably caravans, there are various "campers"
that involve canvas, some where that canvas hits the ground, at what
point does that become a tent ?
David
On 19/04/17 08:54, Warin wrote:
Hi,
I have seen a few roadside 'rest areas' tagged in OSM as camp sites.
At least some of these are not suitable for pitching a tent .. so they
are not camp sites.
At best they could be used by a caravan/RV ... but not a tent user (I
am a tent user).
If the intention was to indicate there use by caravan/RV then they
should be tagged as 'tourism=caravan_site'.
There now exists a tag 'highway=rest_area'.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Drest_area
I think the tag 'highway=rest_area' should replace those 'rest areas'
now tagged as 'camp sites', this would be closer to the truth.
Thoughts?
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