Thanks both - as it currently stands the whole town green is outlined by "boundary=protected_area & protect_class=21 & protection_title=common" (as town_green wasn’t an option, though, I actually added protection_title2=town_green). https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area
The two main components of the green, a wood and a grass area, are separately mapped as such. Where would you add the designation tag? To the boundary or to the two main landuse components? Or would you create a relation so that the designation tag and name (etc.) can be shared across the separate land uses? Again, I know this is a rendering issue, but the two problems are: the name of the town green (which has been added to the boundary) now doesn't show at all on the default map and nor does the boundary of the protected area (like one might expect considering this is the approach used for, e.g., nature reserves). I think this is because protect_class=21 just doesn't get rendered. -----Original Message----- From: Russ Garrett <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 2:35 PM To: Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <[email protected]> Cc: talk-gb <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Town Greens On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 14:31, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <[email protected]> wrote: > What I would do with these is to separate the legal status from the > physical and usage characteristics. First I would tag the legal > status, using the designation=* tag (which was set up for such > purposes) i.e. designation=town_green. Once that's done you can add > whatever other tags you think best describe the actual land and the > way it is used. That might be leisure=park, landuse=recreation_ground, > or whatever, depending on the nature of the Town Green in question. By > using two (or more tags) you can correctly capture the UK legal > status, while also ensuring the area renders in an appropriate way > based on it's on-the-ground characteristics. I was just about to suggest this. The legal status should be tagged separately from the landuse. We created designation=common for common land. However it looks like town greens and village greens are legally identical under the Commons Act. Maybe designation=green might be best, although it looks a little weird. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:designation=common -- Russ Garrett [email protected] _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
