[Tagging] proposal - camp_site=

[Dave Swarthout]

Good point David. Alaska has that same situation. One can camp pretty much
anywhere on public lands. With the exception of parks and native holdings,
Alaska is primarily public land.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:40 AM, David Bannon <dbannon at internode.on.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 15:16 +0900, johnw wrote:
>
> > That’s why I thought " informal yet legal spots" would be good wording
> > to cover this, and maybe link over to the camp_type proposal here -
> > because with the wording for basic, the first thing I thought about
> > was the legality or designation of the spot, thinking it would
> > influence the camp_site= level - when it fact it is all inside the
> > camp_type proposal.
> >
> You will have to help me here John, I don't quite see what you are
> trying to achieve. Here in AU it is, sort of, legal to camp anywhere
> that is not private property and not declared "no camping".
>
> I see camp_site= used only where there is some substantial legal basis,
> (where that is unclear, its camp_type=).
>
> * In countries/places where the default is to allow camping, no sign or
> official endorsement is needed, just lack of a sign saying "no
> camping".
> * In other countries/places, where camping is not allowed unless its so
> stated, we'd need to see that statement.
>
> So, the term, 'legal' does have a slightly different meaning here
> depending on where you are. But if we try and define it too tightly, we
> may well end up excluding some local variation. Not sure thats a good
> idea.
>
> Would it work better if we added a small block that talks about just
> that, how 'legal' has that slightly different meaning ? That block would
> be a good place to say camp_type might be a better tag when the legal
> status is unclear or undefined ?
>
> David
>
>
> > I’m sure this will come up with other taggers as well.
> >
> >
> > I think camp_type=non_designated + camp_site=basic will be used
> > together quite frequently, so reminding people of that is pretty
> > important - it lets voters know why these two proposals go together
> > well.
> >
> >
> > Javbw
> >
> >
> >
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