On 24/02/2020 11:34, Brian Prangle wrote:
This is a case where landcover and landuse get confused in the OSM
scheme of things. Yes it's grass but that's not its use. Its use is
commercial : the space is rented commercially to exhibitors who sell
goods to attendees who pay an entrance fee, with a semi-cultural event
attached.
The wiki describes commercial as:
"Use tag landuse=commercial to delineate areas of land used for
commercial purposes. Commercial landuse mainly deals with services and
trade (tertiary sector).
Such area may consist of offices, administration, laboratories,
logistics, hotels, car repair stations, and associated infrastructure
(car parks, service roads, lawns and so-on). Compared to industrial
landuse (landuse=industrial) no goods are produced."
A showground doesn't fit that description. Sure, it's commercial in the
sense that it generates revenue. But then, so does forestry and
agricultural land. And the trade stand aspect of a county show is
secondary to the primary use, even though, these days, it's the use
which sustains the event financially.
I'm not sure about access rights during times when there is no
event , but I suspect it's private, so an open space justification might
not be appropriate.
Yes; that's why I'm less happy with park or recreation_ground; as these
tend to imply public access. I don't think they're necessarily wrong,
and a ground which gets a lot of year-round use as well as its main show
could well qualify as a recreation_ground. I think that's probably true
of the East of England Showground, for example.
Given that we don't have a dedicated landuse=showground tag, I think
that grass or recreation_ground are normally the best alternatives, and
maybe sometimes park. None of them are precisely right for that kind of
usage, but they're less wrong than some of the other alternatives such
as commercial.
Mark
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