[Tagging] leisure=common

[John F. Eldredge]

On 08/28/2014 10:49 AM, Dave F. wrote:
> 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 I believe it was withdrawn as it vague.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" :-)
>>
The description "an area where the public can walk anywhere" fits many 
other things besides village commons.  I agree that this is an 
overly-vague definition.

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