[Talk-GB] Tagging showgrounds

[Andy Townsend]

On 24/02/2020 09:57, Mark Goodge wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> Someone has commented on a change I made to the Three Counties 
> showground last year when I changed the tagging to landuse=grass 
> rather than landuse=commercial. Their suggestion is that it really 
> ought to be landuse=recreation_ground, with a secondary tag of 
> surface=grass.
>
I suspect that it'll depend on the showground.  For Stoneleigh (which 
used to host the Royal Show), I'd have said commercial was correct.  For 
Ashover https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/231760526 (much smaller!) you 
could perhaps make a case for recreation_ground or farmland, although 
for 1 day a year it's used for Ashover show and it is currently mapped 
as the little-used "amenity=show_grounds" (which doesn't seem wrong, 
either).

I've no idea what the best tag for the Three Counties Showground would 
be - perhaps that would depend on "what it is most of the year"?

Best Regards,

Andy