brad <[email protected]> writes:

> It seems that plain language can be used here, and from the Oxford
> dictionary, a park is:

No.  Plain language cannot be used to define what tags mean.  Each tag
is actually a codepoint, not human language, and needs a definition.
That is fundamental to how tagging works in OSM.

> Why not simply call anything which is a 'large public area for
> recreation', a park, and specify it additionally with additional tags?

Because we have existing norms, and it is not generally a good idea to
ask that tagging of thousands of objects be thrown out and redone.

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