[Talk-GB] Town Greens

[Russ Garrett]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 14:31, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
<robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I would do with these is to separate the legal status from the
> physical and usage characteristics. First I would tag the legal
> status, using the designation=* tag (which was set up for such
> purposes) i.e. designation=town_green. Once that's done you can add
> whatever other tags you think best describe the actual land and the
> way it is used. That might be leisure=park, landuse=recreation_ground,
> or whatever, depending on the nature of the Town Green in question. By
> using two (or more tags) you can correctly capture the UK legal
> status, while also ensuring the area renders in an appropriate way
> based on it's on-the-ground characteristics.

I was just about to suggest this. The legal status should be tagged
separately from the landuse.

We created designation=common for common land. However it looks like
town greens and village greens are legally identical under the Commons
Act. Maybe designation=green might be best, although it looks a little
weird.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:designation=common

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Russ Garrett
russ at garrett.co.uk