[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project 2021Q

[Russ Garrett]

Perhaps it would be useful to capture the difference - if so, I would
recommend a different tag - although I would maybe dispute whether OSM
is the right place to do this given that it's somewhat time-sensitive
and most mappers won't have a good grasp of what common land is
anyway.

Cheers,

Russ

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 18:21, Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Commons, like other land rights, can be registered or unregistered.
>
> It would seem very important to capture the difference, because the Government is progressively closing down all non-registered public land rights. Eg, 31 Dec 2020 was the deadline to register commons in certain areas: those not registered in those areas can now never be commons again.
>
> The next deadline is 2027 for Cumbria and other areas. See:
> https://www.oss.org.uk/our-last-minute-bid-to-rescue-lost-commons/
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 18:04, Russ Garrett <russ at garrett.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 17:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
>> <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > While I'm here: do people have a preference between
>> > designation=registered_common_land and designation=common ? The latter
>> > is what's currently in use (about 140 times in the UK) but the former
>> > is the full term used in CRoW Act 2000. I'd prefer the former:
>> > although it's a longer tag value, I think it's more obvious that it
>> > corresponds to a formal legal designation, and so is less likely to
>> > get mis-applied.
>>
>> Surely the entire point of the designation= tag is to record legal
>> designations, though. There are also commons which exist outside the
>> registration system, as covered on the wiki page. I think the term
>> "registered common land" is used for a specific legal reason in the
>> CRoW Act, not because it is the generally accepted term of art (gov.uk
>> just says "common land").
>>
>> Disclosure: I did create the designation=common tag but tagging
>> discussions bore me to tears so I honestly don't really care.
>>
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>> Russ Garrett
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