[Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 18:35 Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> I think the entire "national_park" tag is unfortunate, as it wraps up a
> lot of concepts that vary by country, and makes people understand things
> when they don't.  In the US, it should mean "preserve the land while
> allowing access and enjoyment", there is a notion that the place is
> relatively distinguished, and it doesn't really have a connotation of
> size.
>

I agree, the national_park tag is rather unfortunate, some other tag should
be used to connote state or national parks in an easily distinguishable
fashion while not making it excessively difficult to find parks in
general.  With the existing national park tag, I'd use it for national (US
and indian tribal), but not state parks.
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