[Tagging] Is landuse=recreation_ground different than leisure=park and leisure=sports_centre?

[Yves]

The ski resort example is not the best Tagging showcase, I guess.
Yves

On 8 June 2022 21:23:58 CEST, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>The tag landuse=recreation_ground seems to only be commonly used in
>Commonwealth countries and Britain. I am not sure how it is supposed to be
>compared to leisure=park or leisure=sports_centre
>
>Here in Portland, Oregon it has been used to map a fenced area of tennis
>courts inside of a park, but that does not seem to be a common use, but
>rather what one local mapper found convenient.
>
>In Britain most of the places of landuse=recreation_ground appear to be
>what we would call a leisure=park in the USA: areas with grass, sports
>pitches, playgrounds, bathrooms, and so on.
>
>Some seem to be sports centres, or parts of school yards which contain
>pitches. It's even been used instead of landuse=winter_sports for ski
>areas, eg: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8191791
>
>See prior discussion on the tag talk page starting at "Confusing" -
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:landuse%3Drecreation_ground#Confusing
>
>- Joseph Eisenberg
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