[Tagging] RFC: Deprecating leisure=summer_camp in favour of tourism=camp_site

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 5:54 PM Sven Geggus <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am the Author of OpenCampingMap (https://opencampingmap.org/) and I just
> recently came across the existence of the tag leisure=summer_camp.
>
> This tag is very uncommon in Germany (where I live).
>
> Looking at OSm as a whole we are talking about 813 vs. 123310 sites.
>
> I think we should deprecate this tag which is AFAIK not used by OSM
> "customers" anyway in favour of tourism=camp_site with additional tags.
>
> Why do I think so?
>
> Well, sommer camps _are_ common in Germany and sites for such events are
> usually taged with the generic tourism=camp_site tag adding an additional
> group_only=yes and if appropriate also scout=yes, tents=yes, and
> caranvans=no and not leisure=summer_camp.
>

I'm not thinking this is so great, considering that a summer camp hard site
may include camp sites within it but connotes private, possibly seasonal,
access, and can be quite large in the United States (with one I can think
of being close to the size of Rhode Island).
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