[Tagging] Camps

Jerry Clough - OSM sk53_osm at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 5 09:44:56 UTC 2015


 It seems to me that the obvious generalisation, which would cover camps organised for profit and by non-profits would be leisure=vacation_camp. This simply generalises summer, and avoids the very specific British connotations associated with  holiday_camp. This does not precisely cover things like scout camps, but is a reasonable starting ground. I should add in practice there is no need to get hung-up about using summer_camp for ones which run all year round: the most important objective of a tag is to be easy to recall: as the vast majority of such camps run in holiday periods and the Wikipedia article has the same title, I suspect this is where people will start.
In general I would use any derivative of "resort" : it is a word which has far too many meanings. To me a resort is a town or village specialising in providing facilities for tourists; in Malaysia I have seen quite simple hotels described as resorts; and elsewhere it refers to holiday centres of the likes of ClubMed. 
Jerry
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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
organised_camp doesn't add any information compared to "camp", any kind of camp will be organised. (medical camp, refugee camp, detention camp, summer camp, military camp, ...)


Sure it adds information.
At a "campground" each camper is free to organize their time among their own group.At scout, military and summer camp there is a scheduled program campers are expected to participate in.
These are fundamentally different venues.
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