[OSM-talk-ie] Some of the 3300 parks in OSM Ireland are just patches of grass.

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Oct 18, 2020, 11:59 by brian at hollinshead.net:

> As part of my researches into what features we have on OSM that might
> interest someone wishing to make use of outdoor facilities, I find on the
> Island of Ireland we have close to 3,300 parks to choose from, wow!
> (leisure=park). On closer inspection I find that many of these in South
> Dublin at least are green areas of grass in housing estates, maybe 4 houses
> long by 8 houses wide. I tend to tag those as per the presets with
> landuse=grass.
>
I would remove leisure=park from them. Note that some people added
fake parks to manipulate outcomes in Pokemon Go that is
using OSM data. 

>  Yesterday I ran overpass landuse=park and got nil response!
>
Good!

> This morning I have added landuse=park to about 24 of the parks already on
> OSM and listed as parks by DLR, South Dublin and Fingal.
>
What is the point of this duplicate of leisure=park?