[Tagging] Deprecating of leisure=common and leisure=village_green

[Warin]

On 01-Dec-17 11:33 AM, Daniel Koć wrote:
> (It's about landuse=village_green, not leisure=village_green, of 
> course...)
>
> W dniu 01.12.2017 o 00:47, ajt1047 at gmail.com pisze:
>
>> This sounds like a severe case of the tail wagging the dog - the fact 
>> that one particular renderer might not want to render a certain tag 
>> in the future is not a reason for not using it where that tag is 
>> actually the most appropriate.
>
> This is the other way around - the tagging seems to be broken, so we 
> think of dropping it. It's a common pattern to neglect problems just 
> because they happened to bite us during rendering development process.
>
> Let's see:
>
> 1. "A *village green* is a distinctive part of a village centre. [...] 
> This tag is very often *not* used to map the situation above, but to 
> map all kinds of mixed vegetation"
>
> - that's 2 different meanings, with the second being full blown 
> misinterpretation, probably tagging for rendering just because it 
> sounds similar and it was visible on default map.
>
> 2. "In the UK common land is registered. [...] Use leisure 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:leisure>=common to identify 
> land over which the public has general rights of use for certain 
> leisure activities."
>
> Sounds like stretching UK legal definition for some reasons.
>

Were not 'commons' used for more than 'recreation'? I think they were 
used for grazing and camping too?

> landuse=recreation_ground or leisure=recreation_ground are not loaded 
> with local customs and would be good candidates to take over (they are 
> both currently rendered on default map style, which would make 
> transition much easier in practice).


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