<div dir="ltr">In Nederland, all villages used to have a central place for community activities, the "Brink". Many are still there usually as a square, often still called "Brink", <div>or a small park. Some have more or less retained the function. Other areas have been assigned community functions that were traditionally assigned to these brinks. So in principle, we could still map them as village_green's , if there was any point to that and if verifiability wasn't required. </div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the Dutch call pieces of greenery in villages and cities "Gemeentegroen".. Literal translation: 'municipality green', i.e. city or village green. Easy to see how that translates into wrong tagging. Every new Dutch mapper runs into this issue and makes the same mistake. </div><div><br></div><div>That explains in part why we are very keen to offer an approved alternative for these little green areas. They are not scrubland, but since there is no rendering alternative, most start tagging them as tiny scrub areas. Tiny forests, tiny gardens and tiny orchards are also popular.</div><div>Seems like other countries have the same issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Peter Elderson<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op vr 23 jul. 2021 om 15:20 schreef Tom Pfeifer <<a href="mailto:t.pfeifer@computer.org">t.pfeifer@computer.org</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">On 16.07.2021 17:47, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
> agreed, it was too absolute to write "outside of Britain", after all Britains have left their traces <br>
> on large parts of the globe. If these are common in New England, Australia, or whereever, feel free <br>
> to use the tag. I know that they aren't common in Germany, despite there are 16,6k uses of the tag: <br>
<br>
In Germany there is the "Anger" or "Dorfanger" matching that definition, and it's the same wikidata<br>
object as village green: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57743" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57743</a><br>
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You are right however that the tagging is frequently misused for any green stuff that has no central <br>
character.<br>
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tom<br>
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