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

[Chris Hodges]

Static caravans are moved by lorry, as they're not road legal for towing, or safe above very low speeds. As I commented before, the line between static caravans, chalets, and park homes is rather uncertain. 

They tend to stay in the same spot for years, and that spot is rented by the year. The owners may (sub)let the unit by the week or even night. 

A site consisting mainly of those could be a holiday_park (tags from memory here) especially if it has a bar/swimming pool/entertainment. Caravan_park would also make sense but seems little used. 

A caravan_site may well have a mix of statics and touring pitches; some such sites would call themselves holiday parks. Even a campsite might have a few. 

Tourism=chalet is a bit of an oddity - semantically it's equivalent to building=house, for a singular, so only useful mapping within a park or site. 

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On 30 May 2023, 09:09, at 09:09, Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Cj Malone replied:
> > I have always understood a caravan site to be somewhere where you
>> can
>> take a caravan, not rent a static one.
>
>When I was mapping local holiday parks that use static caravans some
>years ago (2010-ish)  I didn't change existing tagging where they
>were already mapped, but based on wiki definitions at the time
>couldn't find a suitable one, so used landuse=commercial and name= 
>
>A couple of those have been changed to tourism=caravan_site since by
>other mappers, though not all.
>
>I also noticed that I added a tourism=caravan_site for the touring
>caravans within an already mapped tourism=caravan_park (which has
>since been "corrected" to tourism=caravan_site by another mapper, so
>now we have a site within a site).
>
>And I've just found one that I mapped as landuse=commercial, later
>changed to tourism=caravan_site, tents=yes, which has since been
>changed by someone else to tourism=chalet (over a year ago).
>
>I would have expected tourism=chalet to be more akin to Center
>Parcs, but the nearest of those to me seems to be leisure=resort
>
>So what tag should we be using for holiday parks where much of the
>accommodation is static caravans (some owned, some rented by the
>week, where owners can move their caravan between parks - usually on
>a flat bed lorry rather than towed) and usually have an
>entertainment venue somewhere on the site?
>
>Thanks
>
>Ed
>
>
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