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

[Greg Troxel]

There is some use in Massachusetts.

I see a difference:

  landuse=recreation_ground: for a parcel, or a piece of land used as if
  it were a parcel, that mainly contains athletic fields.  Typically one
  would not go there other than to use the fields.  This more or less
  implies outdoor fields.  If it is mostly game spaces inside buildings,
  that's a sports_centre.

  leisure=park: for a parcel, or a piece of land used as if it were a
  parcel, that is a more or less non-natural green space for people to
  walk around, sit on benches, eat at picnic tables, maybe grill food.
  By more or less non-natural, I mean engineered paths (designed to a
  width, perhaps paved, perhaps grade limited for disability), grass
  that is mowed and non-grass species excluded, etc.  (A place with
  woodland trails of irregular width and rough surfaces and land mostly
  in a natural state -- as in if nobody did anything for 10 years would
  it look similar to how it does now? -- would be
  leisure=nature_reserve.


A park can have a ballfield, or a few tennis courts, but it is primarily
a park.  A recreation_ground can have benches, grills, etc. but is
primarily for sports.  I don't think it really matters how the places
that are tough calls between the two are tagged.

I wouldn't really use this for athletic fields at schools unless there
is also significant, perhaps predominant use by the public.   landuse --
and these tags are all landuse -- is about the predominant human use of
a larger chunk of land.   Drawing the field and labeling it pitch is
enough to show that there is a pitch.
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