[Tagging] Village green (was Re: Feature Proposal - RFC - Shrubbery V2)

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Fr., 16. Juli 2021 um 17:38 Uhr schrieb Brian M. Sperlongano <
zelonewolf at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 11:12 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <
> dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have never understood why people had to use the village green tag
>> outside of Britain at all, given that the definition is quite specific. If
>> something doesn't occur at your place, just don't use the tag, even if it
>> renders nicely ;-)
>>
>
> Simple, because the concept is not unique to Britain, regardless of what
> laws they have that grant special names to the grassy area in the center of
> town.  They are certainly common here in *New* England where many of our
> towns were laid out by British settlers.
>
>

agreed, it was too absolute to write "outside of Britain", after all
Britains have left their traces on large parts of the globe. If these are
common in New England, Australia, or whereever, feel free to use the tag. I
know that they aren't common in Germany, despite there are 16,6k uses of
the tag:
https://taginfo.geofabrik.de/europe/germany/tags/landuse=village_green#overview
(for example).





> I quote the 2009 description of landuse=village_green, which says, simply:
> "A village green is a distinctive part of a village centre"
>
>
great definition, but clearly not sufficient to decide whether the tag is
applicable :)

Cheers,
Martin
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