29 Apr 2019, 15:28 by bradha...@fastmail.com: > It doesn't restrict, as the leisure:park wiki does, to smaller, urban > human-sculpted parks. > I am partially responsible for recent rewrite. The rewrite was supposed to explain how leisure=park is used in OpenStreetMap, and not redefine meaning of this tag. USA is a tricky case as typical use of leisure=park was not matching use of leisure=park that was intended and initial and dominating in other well mapped areas.
Restricting to "human-sculpted parks" was 100% intentional, "smaller" as in "area covering hundreds square kilometers is extremely unlikely to be leisure=park" was intentional. Restricting it cities was not intentional and should be fixed if it happened, some leisure=parks exist in rural areas. > Why not simply call anything which is a 'large public area for recreation', a > park, and specify it additionally with additional tags? > That would require redefining leisure=park and while would match use of word "park" in USA it would start mismatching use of work "park" in UK. It would also start to mismatch how leisure=park is used in Europe. Generally British English is preferred in OSM and redefining popular tags is deeply problematic. If someone feels that leisure=park as described by me here (and partially on Wiki) misrepresents situation - I would participate in some wider discussion on global tagging mailing list if someone would start it. Just recently leisure=park OSM Wiki page was basically without definition and discussion page had basically failed definition attempt and I hope that was is now on the page is an improvement over no definition/explanation at all, but...
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