<html><head></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">Americans also go in for those 5th wheel things, if their trucks are big enough to tow them. But they group them in with RVs. They also seem to include towed caravans ("travel trailers") as a subset of RVs. <br><br><br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On 27 May 2023, at 17:05, Mark Goodge <<a href="mailto:mark@good-stuff.co.uk" target="_blank">mark@good-stuff.co.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue"><br><br>On 27/05/2023 09:35, Cj Malone wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 20:44 +0100, Philip Barnes wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have always understood a caravan site to be a site containing<br> static caravans which are used for tourism.<br></blockquote> <br> I have always understood a caravan site to be somewhere where you can<br> take a caravan, not rent a static one.<br></blockquote><br>Yes, indeed. That's how OS maps, them, for example. It's also the <br>definition used by a number of caravan site finder websites, for example <br><a href="https://www.caravansitefinder.co.uk">https://www.caravansitefinder.co.uk</a>/<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> The wiki says it is for RVs (American for motorhome), which<br> contradicts my understanding and what has always been the usage in<br> OSM, at least in the UK.<br></blockquote> <br> The wiki also lists caravan site, caravan park, motorhome stopover<br> location and RV park. It is is no way limited to motorhomes/RVs.<br> <br> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dcaravan_site">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dcaravan_site</a><br></blockquote><br>I suspect the emphasis on RVs simply reflects US preferences. Americans <br>seem to go for RVs (motorhomes) more than towed caravans, for some reason.<br><br>Mark<br><br><hr><br>Talk-GB mailing list<br>Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>