[Tagging] Annual Shows

[Philip Barnes]

On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, Marc Gemis wrote:
> What about music festivals? I live close to the area that hosts one of
> the biggest festivals in the world: Tomorrowland. [1]
> The festival takes place in a former quarry, which is a park for the
> rest of the year, although it hosts some smaller yearly events as
> well.
> The festival started as a one-day festival, but is now spread over 2
> weekends, typically the last 2 weekends of July and attracts more than
> 400.000 participants from all over the world (spread over the 2
> weekends).
> The camping site for the music festival is spread over the meadows in
> the neighbouring villages. Should those be mapped as well?
> 
> regards
> 
> m.
> 
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrowland_(festival)

The big music festival in the UK is Glastonbury. The festival is not mapped as most of the time it is a farm.

However Worthy Farm is mapped in some detail and can be found in OSM quite easily.

Phil (trigpoint)



> 
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 3:37 PM Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca> 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.
> >
> > See also related discussion in
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/leisure%3Devents
> >
> > --Jarek
> >
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