[Tagging] How to tag a trailer_park ?

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-07-27 06:54, Werner Poppele wrote:
>In the US [1] I found some trailer parks tagged landuse=trailer_park. Is 
>that ok ? Any other recommendations ? The tag tourism=camp_site seems to 
>be not quite correct IMHO.
>
>taginfo
>landuse=trailer_park    8
>amenity=trailer_park    23
>tourism=camp_site       40196

It depends on what you mean by trailer park. For a place that is rented for 
a short term by the day or week to park your RV or towed camper in, I used 
tourism=caravan_site per 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dcaravan_site .

For places called "mobile home parks", which are leased by the year (at 
least), in which to semi-permanently place a pre-manufactured (aka mobile) 
home that requires a great deal of work to move, I tag landuse=residential, 
and add it to a relation (with role=boundary) that is tagged:
type=site
site=housing
housing_type=mobile_home

e.g. 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?box=yes&bbox=-117.9384%2C33.63424%2C-117.93623%2C33.63606

These are sometimes grouped together with the first type, usually 
pejoratively. Having stayed in both types of places, they are nothing alike.


>[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=33.6209&lon=-117.6951&zoom=17

Definitely the latter - a mobile home park.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>