[Talk-GB] Tagging showgrounds

[Mark Goodge]

On 24/02/2020 11:44, Andy Townsend wrote:

> 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).

That does make sense, particularly where the ground has other uses at 
other times.

> 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"?

Most of the year it's just grass. It has no use other than the events 
which are held there, and those only take up a few days a year.

That's why I'm not entirely comfortable with recreation_ground, as that 
implies that it has a year-round use as such.

Mark