[Talk-GB] Car boot sale sites

[Ed Loach]

Hi,

I just went to add a bootsale site that had moved (when I found the
old site wasn't mapped), and didn't know how to tag it. I found
nothing in the wiki, so then checked taginfo and most occurrences of
"boot sale" are in names, so I picked a few to see what combinations
they used. There is a considerable mixture.

I have found 
landuse=commercial
landuse=farmland
tourism=attraction
shop=variety_store
and that was only checking about four different examples. One of
those also used amenity=car_boot_sale on the same site.

As the site I was trying to add was farmland previously I considered
landuse=farmland surface=grass, but is it still farmland if set
aside for car boots? I thought maybe not so went for landuse=grass
for now, and for good measure added amenity=car_boot_sale the name
of the boot sale and a link to their Facebook page. I may yet edit
it in JOSM to add opening hours.

But I thought I'd ask here in case we could come up with a more
consistent set of tags. There are a number of local sites I could
then make consistent. But I guess not all are on grassed (former)
farmland like they are around me, so perhaps landuse shouldn't be
part of the solution?

Thanks,

Ed
(User: EdLoach)