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<div style="16px" text-align="left">29 Apr 2019, 15:28 by bradhaack@fastmail.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">It doesn't restrict, as the leisure:park wiki does, to smaller, urban human-sculpted parks.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I am partially responsible for recent rewrite. The rewrite was supposed to explain how leisure=park<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">is used in OpenStreetMap, and not redefine meaning of this tag. USA is a tricky case as typical<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">use of leisure=park was not matching use of leisure=park that was intended and initial and<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">dominating in other well mapped areas.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Restricting to "human-sculpted parks" was 100% intentional, "smaller" as in "area covering <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">hundreds square kilometers is extremely unlikely to be leisure=park" was intentional.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Restricting it cities was not intentional and should be fixed if it happened, some leisure=parks<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">exist in rural areas.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Why not simply call anything which is a 'large public area for recreation', a park, and specify it additionally with additional tags?<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">That would require redefining leisure=park and while would match use of word "park" in USA<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">it would start mismatching use of work "park" in UK. It would also start to mismatch how<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">leisure=park is used in Europe.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Generally British English is preferred in OSM and redefining popular tags is deeply problematic.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">If someone feels that leisure=park as described by me here (and partially on Wiki)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">misrepresents situation - I would participate in some wider discussion <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">on global tagging mailing list if someone would start it.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Just recently leisure=park OSM Wiki page was basically without definition and discussion<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">page had basically failed definition attempt and I hope that was is now on the page is an improvement<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">over no definition/explanation at all, but...<br></div> </body>
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