<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Please leave the description vague. Every one of us will be able to come up with a list of "squares" that don't fulfil the criteria we will define. They often have the role of landmarks for the population, long after the original square (as empty space for the people) has disappeared.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Or maybe a completely different approach could bring all the different meanings into one framework:</div><div>place=square</div><div>plus</div><div>suare:type=</div><div><br></div><div>The square type values could handle all the regional variants, including using the local type names.<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, 10:46 Martin Koppenhoefer, <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Mo., 23. März 2020 um 09:56 Uhr schrieb Lionel Giard <<a href="mailto:lionel.giard@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">lionel.giard@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My only problem with "fixing unnamed place=square" is that i know at least 2 locations where the village center open area is definitely a place=square (i.e. an open area with some car parks, and open just in front of the church
that was historically the place for gathering people but also cattle (and now used for people, cars, market, village gathering,...)) <b>but they have no name, it is just an open area.</b> <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>indeed, while names are very common, they should not necessarily be a hard requirement, if everyone agrees that the area in question is indeed a square / place. Btw., place=locality without a name doesn't make more sense than place=square, but less.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Martin<br></div></div></div>
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