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

[Zeke Farwell]

Greg's description matches how I use the three different tags as well.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 8:32 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

>
> 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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