Agreed, emphasis in Kevin's text is mine.
It looks like some of this redefinition of the park tag is new? ie the
human sculpted part, and the attempt to restrict the usage. Perhaps
clarity is needed, but more narrowly defined than the Oxford dictionary,
or common usage, is not needed.
On 4/29/19 12:38 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
oops, sent to wrong list
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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.
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