Simone Cortesi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:17 PM, graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone have any ideas for tagging traveller's camps? There are >> quite a few round my way, long-term caravan sites with hard surfaces, >> AFAIK all gypsy and not open to random caravanners. >> landuse = travellers_camp? Or 'gypsy site'? I'm trying not to fall >> between lack of political correctness and something that will be >> misunderstood in any language but english.. > > the meaning of "gypsy site" to me, being a non-native english speaker, > is quite understandable. > > We even do have a word-to-word translation for it in italian, being, > the maybe more politically correct: campo nomadi (nomad site/nomad > camp).
I think the problem here is one of 'political correctness' since there is a distinct difference between travellers and gypsy groups and while neither may be bothered by the be distinction on a map, There is a difference between site allowing for transient occupation, and permanent sites more akin to residential caravan sites. We do then get into the discussion on *IF* we should record the position of such sites where they have been established without any regard to local planning rules. I only flag that one since a new site has appeared not far from here which is a privately owned field but which has been converted into a well provisioned permanent site over a single weekend. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
