[Tagging] leisure=common

[Dave F.]

I've just looked up common on taginfo & I'm very surprised to see 
virtually all are tagged with leisure= (39348). If I ever used it (& I'm 
unsure I have) I would have used landuse= (123). I genuinely believe 
this is an example of where it being the majority doesn't make it correct.

In Britain a common is an area of land, usually grass, which is open for 
all to use, where any number of leisure activities could occur (sports, 
picnics, playgrounds etc), which is why I think it's vague. It needs a 
separate tag to able to map the leisure activities with the area.

Again, I'm really surprised by the number of landuse= tags. Was there a 
mass edit?

Dave F.


On 28/08/2014 16:31, Pieren wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
>> I believe it was withdrawn as it vague. You logic is stated on one of the
>> pages you posted.
> It was in the "map features" page for years : "An area where the
> public can walk anywhere (UK) "
>
> I guess it is also used in US. I found some examples :
> https://www.google.fr/search?safe=off&hl=fr&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=village+common&oq=village+common&gs_l=img.3...11667.13247.0.13578.8.7.0.0.0.0.476.476.4-1.1.0....0...1c.1.52.img..8.0.0.cFS7KjyXTyo
>
> If you don't know what "village common" is then don't use it. If we
> start to delete all vague definitions in the wiki, we should better
> start with "smoothness" :-)
>
> Pieren
>
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