[Tagging] Annual Shows

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 22:40:04 UTC 2020


On 26/2/20 1:35 am, Jarek PiĆ³rkowski wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 05:01, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> These shows do take place at a permanent site.
>>
>> They take place annually, floods, fire, droughts and wars excepted.
>>
>> The dates may vary depending on various things, but usually around the same time each year.
>>
>> They are part of Australian culture, and it would seem British culture.
> I also wish for a settled tag for a regular, locally important event
> that is repeatedly or always held at a given site.
>
> I have tagged location of one such in Canada with landuse=fairground
> but this doesn't seem perfect and landuse key doesn't logically lend
> itself well to specifying details about the events that might be
> taking place there. A lot of fairgrounds in Canada end up being tagged
> as a park for lack of a better description.


Two different things;

What the land is used for the majority of the time. A 'landuse'.

What event regularly takes place here. An 'event'.

OSM already has a 'landuse' key. Is it time for an 'event' key?

>
> See also related discussion in
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/leisure%3Devents


Confuses the land use with the event?

>
> --Jarek
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