oops, sent to wrong list ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:36 PM Subject: Fwd: [Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type To: OSM Tagging mailing list <[email protected]>
Using a British dictionary (Living Oxford Dictionary), the first definition of 'park' is: 1 A large public garden or area of land used for recreation. ‘a walk round the park’ ‘a country park’ https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/park The 'or public garden' implies that the area *may* be human sculpted, but there is no separate definition to encompass 'regional park'. There is a separate entry for 'national park', and under 'park' there are entries to cover the 'park' of a country house, a 'wildlife park', 'park' as another word for 'playground', 'park' as an informal word for 'football pitch' (borrowed from the American usage) and the Americanism 'sports park' - and then a second sense of any area devoted to a specific purpose ('industrial park', 'office park'), plus a third designating the 'park' position of the gear selector on an automatic transmission. I'm fine with 'leisure=park' being more specific, but we have to be very clear what we mean because it's more restrictive than even UK English (to say nothing of CANZUS, where 'park' for the large regional parks is surely common), and we have to expect mistagging, particularly in light of the fact that the rest of the English-speaking world has tagged a lot of parks with the looser language that used to be on the Wiki. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
