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<div style="16px" text-align="left">24 Apr 2019, 23:05 by kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">TL;DR - Tag the land use, not the land ownership. A city, town,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">county, or state park may be virtually indistinguishable urban green<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">spots, recreation grounds, nature reserves, whatever. The level of<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">government that manages them may be of interest and worth tagging, but<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">ought not to be the primary determinant of 'park type'.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I fully agree - who owns objects is not changing its type.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Especially for parks - it does not matte whatever it is owned by<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">government, company or a single person.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">I think that the Wiki definition leaves a lot to be desired, and I'm<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">groping in a fog, much as you are, so please don't take anything that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I say here as a confrontational pronouncement.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">It is one of things that seems easy to define until one actually attempts to do it.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Further help is welcomed!<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">(...)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">All of these features make for what is essentially a human landscape.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">It's one that's designed to be relaxed, focused on being a respite<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">from the hurly-burly of the city, but it's still relatively densely<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">developed - with many users concentrated in a relatively small area -<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and definitely human-sculpted.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I agree, and I really like term "human-sculpted".<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">The 'type' of park ought to be "what type of experience ought the<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">visitor to expect" and not "what government manages it."<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Again, I fully agree.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Bethpage State Park <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6447778">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6447778</a> is<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">a golf course. Robert Moses State Park<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6442393">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6442393</a> is a swimming beach. I<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">see no reason to map them as anything but what they are, except to<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">inform the user that they're state-owned and run by OPRHP (the Office<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation).<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Yes, "park" in the name does not mean that it is leisure=park.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">And some leisure=park may not have "park" in the name (not sure how<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">often it happens in USA).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">We have also things called "industrial park" or "business park"<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">that are also not tagged leisure=park.<br></div> </body>
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