[Talk-GB] What does tourism=caravan_site mean?

[Cj Malone]

On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 20:44 +0100, Philip Barnes wrote:
> I have always understood a caravan site to be a site containing
> static caravans which are used for tourism. 

I have always understood a caravan site to be somewhere where you can
take a caravan, not rent a static one.

> The wiki says it is for RVs (American for motorhome), which
> contradicts my understanding and what has always been the usage in
> OSM, at least in the UK.

The wiki also lists caravan site, caravan park, motorhome stopover
location and RV park. It is is no way limited to motorhomes/RVs.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dcaravan_site


On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 21:08 +0100, Chris Hodges wrote:
> Apart from anything else, a chalet is one unit, so changing a whole
site 
> to one tourism=chalet is almost bound to be an error - but it could
be a 
> case of mapping a bunch of chalets in one area. 

Don't read too much into the value being the singular chalet not
chalets. Tech is full of misspellings. See "Referer". It's the
definition that matters, not the key/value.

The wiki used to clearly state it was for 1 or more chalets, it gets
edited every time the conversation comes up, but it currently still
says that "This could apply to single chalet or a group of chalets."

Putting tourism=chalet on each individual building/static caravan is
invalid, it creates duplicates. There should be one tourism=chalet for
the site, and only if an individual building within the site is rented
out differently/not part of the site from a customers point of view,
then it should get it's own tourism=chalet.

CJ