[Talk-GB] Town Greens

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In the past the term urban commons was widely used in the ecological
literature for all sorts of (mainly) grassy spaces in towns. If one wanted
a catch-all designation this might be suitable, although I think it would
be perhaps better used to replace the usages of landuse=grass &
leisure=common in urban situations.

Jerry

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 14:36, Russ Garrett <russ at garrett.co.uk> wrote:

> 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 at garrett.co.uk
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